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It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast

First Live Q&A | Sneak Peek!

It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast

The Overlap

History, Rob Draper, Jonathan Wilson, Football, It What Was What It Was, The Overlap, Football History, Premier League, Four Four Two, When Saturday Comes, English Football, The Blizzard, Stick To Football, Sports, Soccer

4.9667 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to It Was What It Was, the football history podcast. We’ve just hosted our first live Patreon Q&A, where Rob Draper and Jonathan Wilson answered questions directly from members, covering football history, stories from the game and much more. Here is a section from the conversation, watch and listen to the full episode only on Patreon.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the first. It was what it was. Q&A session for Patreon subscribers. I'm Jonathan Wilson. I'm with Rob Draper. It's very exciting. We'll live. It's a tight net walk. As you see, Rob's already disappeared because his Wi-Fi is so bad, and that'll be the most exciting thing about this next half hour or so. How well can Bristolian Wi-Fi stand up? Because let me tell you, in the last week, it's been absolutely dreadful. First of all, thank you very much for signing up. It really does mean a lot to us. With your help, Rob might be able to buy a better Wi-Fi connection.

0:39.0

And hopefully it'll enable us to do more episodes and even more interesting things in the future.

0:43.9

So do you remember, please, to keep plugging us, keep telling you mates, your colleagues, your family, whoever.

0:48.7

So should we take this first question from the live feed?

0:52.0

So this is from Joseph Ghent.

0:54.0

Which do you prefer? International

0:56.2

Football or club football? And he says, international football has the glory in the culture,

1:01.3

but club football today has the more developed tactics. Interested in your preferences.

1:06.0

Which would you go for, Rob? Okay. Well, if you're asked me right now in 2026, with the World Cup

1:10.8

coming up, I'm anticipating international Well, if you're asked me right now in 2026, with the World Cup coming up,

1:11.3

I'm anticipating international football because I do think there is an element where club football

1:16.7

has taken an aggressive backward step. I know that's very much on vogue at the moment,

1:21.2

saying everything's terrible. But, you know, look, I think it depends. If you've got the

1:26.2

Barcelona team of Pep Guardiola,

1:27.8

we've got Manchester City play in Liverpool, you know, at their peak.

1:32.2

It's just wonderful to watch club football.

1:34.0

But we have said many times, Jonathan,

1:35.5

that international football is almost not a different sport,

1:39.7

but just a different kind of a game

1:41.3

because you don't have the time to prepare the pressing and attacks

1:43.9

in the same way. And as such, it is perhaps a little bit purer. As such, it is more,

1:51.5

can be more attractive to the naked eye because there are just more mistakes. And, you know,

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