It Was What It Was

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: https://t.co/zsDq1ZCMOW

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Carra’s football knowledge is actually ridiculous! 🤯 🧠

Someone might need to make these questions a bit harder next time! 😂

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

Excitingly the world’s second best history podcast has @jonawils wanging on about Hungarian football

A reminder tho that if you want the real deal you’ll have to listen to @ItWasPod

Don’t settle for imitations!

[Jonathan Wilson @jonawils]

The latest IWWIW book club: Ronnie Reng talks about A Life Too Short, his brilliant biography or the tragic Robert Enke.

Sign up here: https://t.co/S2WNmzYJYU

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

The extraordinary, heartbreaking story of Robert Enke today with his brilliant biographer Ronnie Reng is this month’s @ItWasPod Book Club for Patreon members

His life and Ronnie’s book changed my understanding of mental health

An astonishingly powerful book

[Jonathan Wilson @jonawils]

The Fanzine Movement, and why it was so important to British football culture in the late 80s and 90s.

Daniel Gray joins us in It Was What It Was to discuss his book Fanzine.

#fanzines #premierleague #iwwiw

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

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!

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

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

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

“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 🙄

[Jonathan Wilson @jonawils]

Arsène Wenger becomes the victim of some classic banter as he settles into life at Arsenal.

#arsenal #wenger #iwwiw

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

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

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

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: https://t.co/410s6mJWHW

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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.

https://t.co/JEOAj98lsT

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

‘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 story behind one of football's most influential managers! 🇫🇷

The latest @ItWasPod explores Arsene Wenger's life, career and lasting impact on the game. 🎙️

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

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

[Jonathan Wilson @jonawils]

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.

https://t.co/JEOAj98lsT

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

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

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

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: https://t.co/HIenv9FX2z…