@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 23
It wasn’t just on the pitch that Arsène Wenger transformed English football Today’s @ItWasPod Patreon edition with @jonawils on how Wenger revolutionised scouting + helped build today’s Arsenal For years Arsenal were best in class - even if they missed out (just) on Messi!
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Rob Draper
@draper_robOct 22
The astonishing elegance with which Arsenal won the 1998 double was the moment Arsène Wenger cemented his legendary status in England Part 4 of Wenger on @ItWasPod with @jonawils covers that extraordinary 1997-98 season, the first French conquest of England since 1066
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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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