World Cup Countdown: 1934 | Patreon Sneak Peek!
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We're on Patreon! As a treat to our loyal listeners, here's a sneak peek of what you'll be getting if you join the "It Was" Patreon community.
In a new Patreon series - Rob and Jonathan take a trip back through the World Cup! This will be dropping every Wednesday on Patreon - so we've gone with the imaginative title of World Cup Wednesdays!
If you join, you'll also be getting ad-free main episodes, loads more bonus episodes, magazine retrospectives and Q&As with Rob and Jonathan. Plus you'll be supporting the show and connecting with the "It Was..." community.
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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 WEDNESDAYS!
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.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well welcome to it was what it was and welcome to this special treat we're giving you on a Friday. |
| 0:13.9 | It's a little bit of a bonus edition. As you probably know, our patron is now up and running and I want to thank all those patron subscribers and many of you who have already committed to supporting us we're really |
| 0:25.1 | really grateful however if you haven't yet made that leap and you're still dithering |
| 0:30.6 | we just wanted to tease you a little bit with the kind of things the patron subscribers are |
| 0:35.5 | enjoying and this is a little excerpt of the amazing |
| 0:39.2 | World Cup episode that I'm doing with Jonathan. Jonathan's obviously written a book on the World Cup |
| 0:44.2 | History of the World Cup. And this episode is on 1934, which is kind of when Mussolini hijacks |
| 0:48.9 | a World Cup and it becomes political. You may think that football got political more recently, but really it goes |
| 0:55.4 | back the best part of a hundred years. It's a fascinating. Listen, Jonathan's thoughts and research |
| 1:01.1 | is really extensive. So do give it a little listen. And if you like it, obviously sign up to our |
| 1:06.8 | Patreon, but not only the World Cup edition, but today you can also listen to part two of |
| 1:12.4 | Pep Guardiola only on the Patreon, where Jonathan and I discuss his legacy. And we think there's |
| 1:18.0 | quite a good case that he is the most influential coach ever to impact English football. But |
| 1:24.3 | sign up and listen in. And then also you can contact us on a chat to either agree |
| 1:29.2 | or disagree we'd love for you to get involved in that lots of people are already and we've got a |
| 1:33.8 | few themes and threads going on the chat on the patron page so go and have a look at our |
| 1:39.3 | patron page sign up if you like it we'd love to have you on. Enjoy this little excerpt of the World Cup edition and look out for Pep on the patron today as well. |
| 1:50.8 | So I think you see very quickly in 1930 that the World Cup and hosting the World Cup is a political event. |
| 1:58.2 | But whatever happened in 1930 is absolutely dwarfed by what happens in 1934, |
| 2:04.0 | when the World Cup is absolutely comprehensively hijacked by Mussolini. |
| 2:08.8 | Yeah, and that is not a pleasant experience. And you're writing a book about Jules Rime, |
| 2:15.4 | who I think he's a decent man, isn't he? I think it's the opening game. |
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