Welcome to It Was What It Was. I'm Rob Draper. This is a very special edition of the Football History podcast.

Yes, it's perhaps the greatest sporting clash of the year. I'm not talking about Inter against Barster Semi-File. I'm not talking

about Rory Macquarie Wren in the Masters or Crystal Palace winning the FA Cup. No, it was the

showdown between those podcast titans ourselves and football cliches, hated rivals who we

always try and take out and take down. Yes, it was a football cliches quiz.

This was a titanic test of football knowledge,

but with Jonathan Wilson leading our team,

I was sadly out with the hamstring strain.

So John Bruin ably stepped in,

and producer Patrick Moore, an absolute star.

You have to listen to the very end to get to that part.

Little plot spoiler, it goes down right to the end, and it's an epic sporting clash and a showdown of football brains.

Enjoy. This is the 18th edition of the Clisys Quiz. Alongside me on Team Clisies, Charlie Eccleshare, how you doing? Very well, thank you. Three defeats in a row for us now. This is cracked logo territory, isn't it? Yeah, we're desperate need of something. Even a draw, take a point at this point. Just stop the rot. We're not doing a tie break. If it's a drawer, it's a draw. are genuine stop the rot territory. Alongside you, the ever-optimistic David Walker, how do we turn this around, Dave? Well, hopefully the questions you've done are a little bit harder than last time. I think that's definitely something in our power to control that we need to get ourselves around. I'm not sure, but have you been memorising your Brentford substitutes from

2021 anyway? I'm fairly confident that that's not going to come up again, surely.

Fair thing. You can't, lightning, can't strike twice. However, the fixture list is not looking kind.

Our quiz opponents today are football history merchants. It was what it was was, spearheaded by the great Jonathan Wilson.

Welcome back to cliches, Jonathan. 331 episode wait for your second cliché's appearance.

And I felt every second of it.

1,377 days, 12 more days than David O'Leary's reign as manager of Leeds United. That's how long it's been.

I mean, that is a long time. I feel that my Rima today, yeah, obviously I want to win, but basically I need to put a smile back on the face of quizzing.

That's our job, but fine. But yeah, welcome.

Let's hope things go smoothly.

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