Shoot Magazine Throwback EP 1 - Patreon Sneak Peek!
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
We're launching on Patreon! And to kick things off, here's a sneak peek of what you'll be getting if you join the "It Was" Patreon community.
In this first episode in a new Patreon series - Rob and Jonathan take a trip back through historic issues of football magazines - starting with Shoot!
If you join, you'll also be getting all of our main episdoes ad free, bonus episodes, World Cup countdown and Q&As with Rob and Jonathan. Plus you'll be supporting the show and connecting with the "It Was..." community.
Patreon subscribers get:
BONUS EDITIONS
Exclusive deep dives, specials & extended conversations from one-off specials to extra episodes that expand on our weekly free shows, you’ll get fresh, members-only content - including our “Bonus Editions” strand where Rob and Jonathan go deeper into football’s biggest stories and hidden histories.
WORLD CUP COLLECTION
Our countdown to 2026 - every tournament revisited Join Rob and Jonathan as they walk through every World Cup from 1930 to today, exploring the drama, evolution, legends, controversies and cultural impact of each tournament.
RETRO MAGAZINE COLLECTION
Flicking through the archives of classic football culture A nostalgic series diving into the pages of Shoot! and other retro football magazines - revisiting the stars, forgotten features, and football fandom of decades past.
MONTHLY LIVE Q&A WITH ROB & JONATHAN
Your chance to ask two of football’s leading writers anything. Submit your questions about recent episodes, football history, their journalism, or upcoming projects — and hear their answers in our LIVE members-only Q&A.
JOIN THE IT WAS COMMUNITY
Connect with fellow fans & nostalgia lovers Meet other members who share your passion for football history. Be part of the conversation and help shape the future of the show.
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- Exclusive content
- Q&As
- Ad-free episodes
- Private community
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this little treat on it was what it was. |
| 0:11.6 | Normally what you're about to hear will be available to Patreon members only. |
| 0:15.9 | But this is a little taster of the sort of thing you could get if you pay your $4.99 a month, |
| 0:23.8 | an incredibly reasonable $4.99 a month. |
| 0:30.0 | So this is us looking back through an old copy of shoot. |
| 0:33.4 | But this isn't the only thing you'll get. |
| 0:35.3 | It's not just us reading old magazines. |
| 0:39.1 | There'll also be, well, what else will they be, Rob? |
| 0:45.0 | Why don't you tell the listeners exactly the range of goodies that they'll be getting for their 499? |
| 0:46.6 | There's all sorts of things going on. |
| 0:48.2 | We're going to be doing a countdown to the World Cup, going through your book, The Power |
| 0:51.3 | and the Glory, aren't we we doing every single World Cup in its |
| 0:54.5 | historical context? But there's going to be bonus editions. When we have our more mainstream |
| 0:59.4 | editions, where we do in special editions, say on Pep Guardiola's legacy, on Louis Figo's |
| 1:05.6 | impact at Real Madrid and the Galacticos, that kind of thing. So just for more in-depth coverage |
| 1:11.5 | and just for that stuff that we really don't have time to do |
| 1:14.8 | in a one-hour episode, we'll be digging a little bit deeper. |
| 1:17.9 | And we've really enjoyed doing these shoot episodes, |
| 1:20.9 | just looking back. |
| 1:22.5 | You know, lots of things have changed since 1983. |
| 1:25.1 | The shoot magazine we're about to look through. |
| 1:27.1 | On the front cover of Yesper Olson, Manchester and I we're about to look through on the front cover of |
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