@ItWasPod

The football history podcast. Hosted by renowned football journalists @jonawils and @draper_rob. Brought to you by @WeAreTheOverlap

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Ever wanted the best football knowledge in your friendship group? 👀 If Jamie Carragher listens to It Was What It Was, you’re probably onto something 😂 🎙️ Listen: shows.acast.com/it-was-what-…
The Overlap
@WeAreTheOverlapSep 3
Carra’s football knowledge is actually ridiculous! 🤯 🧠 Someone might need to make these questions a bit harder next time! 😂
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Rob Draper
@draper_robOct 16
“Bayern Munich 1974-1976: slow, boring, hampered by ponderous sweeper Beckenbauer” 💯 stick to my Ralf Rangnick inspired view this is the correct take @jonawils (a rigid, uninspired thinker) seems to think the evidence of 3 successive European Cup wins suggests otherwise 🙄
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Jonathan Wilson@jonawilsOct 14
Arsène Wenger becomes the victim of some classic banter as he settles into life at Arsenal. #arsenal #wenger #iwwiw
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Rob Draper
@draper_robOct 13
Arsène Wenger wandering around Wimbledon dressing room saying: ‘There is a bum?’ after Ian Wright pranked him there was a bomb scare 🤨 Picture Arsenal players sniggering in the background 🙄 Part 3 Wenger: The Man Who Changed English Football @ItWasPod @jonawils
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Rob Draper
@draper_robOct 9
Football’s biggest financial scandals: Why Man City is not an aberration A bonus edition for our @ItWasPod Patreon subscribers on the long history of football’s financial skulduggery And why Sunderland should be relegated NOW‼️ Tho @jonawils argues they’ve suffered enough
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Football’s Biggest Financial Scandals 💰 Out now on our Patreon for subscribers: patreon.com/ItWas/posts/1716…
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It Was What It Was@ItWasPodSep 29
30 years after one of the most significant coaching appointments in English football, we have released… THE ARSÈNE WENGER STORY 🇫🇷 How an unknown Frenchman transformed the Premier League. All 4 parts available on Patreon — with no ads. patreon.com/collection/23980…
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Rob Draper
@draper_robOct 6
‘That’s not normal!’ As a young coach, Arsène Wenger wld literally throw up after a defeat, so viscerally was he effected by losing Part genius, part obsessive: 30 years on from arguably the most significant appointment in PL history: Wenger Part 2 on @ItWasPod with @jonawils
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The Overlap
@WeAreTheOverlapOct 3
The story behind one of football's most influential managers! 🇫🇷 The latest @ItWasPod explores Arsene Wenger's life, career and lasting impact on the game. 🎙️
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Rob Draper
@draper_robSep 30
Some non divisive news to tweet We can all agree that @KuperSimon Football Against The Enemy is an all time classic football book It’s now 30 years old 😳 so @jonawils and I invited Simon on to @ItWasPod Book Club to reminisce on a book that changed football writing
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Jonathan Wilson@jonawilsSep 29
Thirty years on from Arsène Wenger’s arrival at Arsenal, IWWIW looks at his extraordinary success. Part 1: his origins in Alsace. #wenger #arsenal #iwwiw
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30 years after one of the most significant coaching appointments in English football, we have released… THE ARSÈNE WENGER STORY 🇫🇷 How an unknown Frenchman transformed the Premier League. All 4 parts available on Patreon — with no ads. patreon.com/collection/23980…
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Rob Draper
@draper_robSep 29
30 years after the most seismic coaching appointment in English football @ItWasPod presents …. *The Arsène Wenger Story* How an unknown Frenchman transformed the Premier League Part 1 with @jonawils on the agricultural shoots that shaped Wenger childhood
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Rob Draper
@draper_robSep 25
A brilliant bonus edition for our @ItWasPod Patreon subscribers today @honigstein on whether Jürgen can initiate Das Reboot 2.0 on German national team Fascinating details from the man who knows both Klopp and Die Mannschaft best @jonawils
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Ghanaian’s Football Golden Age: Part Two 🎙️ Listen: shows.acast.com/it-was-what-……
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Jonathan Wilson@jonawilsSep 21
The glory and tragic death of Bob Mensah, Ghana’s greatest goalkeeper. For It Was What It Was members. #ghana #mensah #iwwiw
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Rob Draper
@draper_robSep 18
The extraordinary life + tragic death of Bob Mensah, Ghanian football icon on today’s @ItWasPod Patreon as told by @jonawils
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Catch this week's bonus episode of It Was What It Was on Patreon as Rob and Jonathan explore the life and death of Ghanaian goalkeeper Robert Mensah, a revered figure little known outside Ghana. Sign up to our Patreon page following the link below: patreon.com/c/ItWas
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Catch the first part of our two-part series on the Golden Age of Ghanaian Football following the link below: podfollow.com/it-was-what-it…

It Was What It Was: Ghanian's Football Golden Age: Part One

Rob Draper and Jonathan Wilson discuss how Kwame Nkrumah used football to build Ghana’s national identity and promote Pan-African unity after independence (1957) and becoming a republic (1960). T...

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Rob Draper
@draper_robSep 15
Kwame Nkrumah, football and Ghanaian independence @ItWasPod with @jonawils today on how Ghana’s first prime minister and president used football to build national identity
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Rob Draper
@draper_robSep 11
Myself + @jonawils taking a look back at Shoot! Magazine 1984 on @ItWasPod Patreon today England are taking on Denmark as they embark on their Euro 84 qualifying under Bobby Robson ‘Easy for England!’ is headline Join us on Patreon to see how that turned out
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