@ItWasPod

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

 Every Tuesday & Friday 🎧
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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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@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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@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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@draper_robSep 8
It’s The Return of the King today on @ItWasPod - Kevin Keegan Part 3, a hugely enjoyable series to curate Just why was Keegan able to inhabit the Messiah role quite so convincingly? @jonawils and I discuss his unique charisma in the second coming at #NUFC
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Enjoyed doing this with @jonawils and @draper_rob for the very brilliant It Was What It Was podcast. This is an extract from that, about Jock Stein.
Rob Draper
@draper_robSep 4
The extraordinary, tragic and awful 1985-86 season is today’s Patreon edition with @_ChrisLepkowski + his book The Slum Sport Here talking with @jonawils about the terrible night great Jock Stein died on the job + the profound influence it had on Sir Alex Ferguson
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@draper_robSep 4
The extraordinary, tragic and awful 1985-86 season is today’s Patreon edition with @_ChrisLepkowski + his book The Slum Sport Here talking with @jonawils about the terrible night great Jock Stein died on the job + the profound influence it had on Sir Alex Ferguson
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