The football history podcast. Hosted by renowned football journalists @jonawils and @draper_rob. Brought to you by @WeAreTheOverlap
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Jun 8
What is your favourite World Cup moment? 🤔
@itwaspod co-host Jonathan Wilson reveals his top three! 👀
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Jun 5
Marco Tardelli!😱
Rossi’s redemption 🇮🇹
Dignity of Dino Zoff 🏆
How Italy’s 1982 win sparked renaissance of a nation
With fabulous Prof John Foot, the ultimate expert on intersection of Italian history calcio
For @ItWasPod Patreon subscribers. Link in bio
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Jun 3
🌍 It's World Cup Wednesdays!
This week, Rob and Jonathan dive into the story of the 2006 World Cup, including that infamous Baden-Baden episode 👀
Listen now on the @itwaspod Patreon 🎧
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May 28
Drop your questions in the comments below for our live Q&A at 5:30pm BST on Patreon
May 28
Have a question for Rob and Jonathan? 👀
Join the It Was What It Was team live on Patreon tonight at 17:30 for a special Q&A! 🎙️
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May 20
With the Europa League Final taking place tonight, listen back to our episode on Aston Villa when they ruled Europe back in 1982...
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May 19
How do you beat Old Firm?!
Today @ItWasPod @MGrantScotland on extraordinary story of Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen
🤬 Hairdryer he gave Eric Black after scoring hat trick at Celtic
😡 Astonishing meltdown after Dons WON the 1983 cup final
Quite the epsiode this with @jonawils
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Apr 29
Live Q&A tomorrow at 12pm! 👀
Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper answer your questions on @itwaspod's Patreon 👋
➡️ patreon.com/cw/ItWas
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Apr 24
Charles Reep
Heroic founding father of football data, inspired visionary?
Zealous progenitor of long ball game, destroyer of English football?
@jonawils debates extraordinary influence of man with no real football pedigree on @ItWasPod Patreon
Link in bio! Sign up to listen!
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Apr 21
The night that defined Graham Taylor’s England… 👀
Oslo, Norway, and a collapse that changed everything, out now on @itwaspod 🎧
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Apr 21
NORSE MANURE!
Nadir of the Do I Not Like That years with England travelling to Norway to take on @JanAageFjortoft team
Spoiler: does not end well for England
Last part of @ItWasPod series on Graham Taylor’s England
@jonawils deals with Gazza’s decline
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Apr 15
It’s World Cup Wednesday on @ItWasPod Patreon and it’s Argentina 1978 with @jonawils
A joyous win for Argentina against a backdrop of macabre, murderous repression
And of course Ally’s Army: Archie Gemill, provided Trainspotting with its most iconic scene but Scotland exit
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Apr 14
Catch Part Two of our series on Graham Taylor and his decline as England Manager between 1990-94 following the link below:
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Apr 10
Some games are said to change football history… But do they really? 🕵️♂️
Listen now on the @itwaspod Patreon 🎧
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Catch the latest episode of It Was What It Was following the link below, as we take a look into England's Downfall under Graham Taylor:
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Apr 2
2 million listeners! 🥳
A huge thank you to everyone who’s tuned into It Was What It Was! 🙌
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Mar 31
The great @JanAageFjortoft on @ItWasPod today on peak Norway 🇳🇴 how - hugely ironically - the long ball game sunk Graham Taylor’s England
‘Do I not like that’
‘Can we not knock it?’
‘It’s made for Wrighty’
Relive one of the most extraordinary England games with @jonawils
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Mar 24
Catch the latest episode of It Was What It Was with an extraordinary guest, Clyde Best, who was an absolute pioneer to the game. Listen following the link below:
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Mar 24
A brilliant @ItWasPod special with great Clyde Best, West Ham legend pioneer for generation of black footballers, @IanWright0 to @Anderson_Viv
Extraordinary tale from Bermuda to Upton Park
UK premiere of his story *Transforming the Beautiful Game* is @Sadlers_Wells tmrw!
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Mar 17
Catch the finale of our series on the tragedy of Colombia in the 1994 World Cup...
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Mar 17
The jaw-dropping, grotesque build up to Colombia’s 1994 World Cup game v USA, which saw the Andres Escobar OG
Death threats were programmed into the home screen of TVs in rooms of the team hotel
The finale of our series on tragedy of Colombia 94 @ItWasPod @jonawils
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