Happy New Year! This is Early Kick Off from the Men in Blazers media network and presented by our great friends of the pod STōK Cold Brew Coffee, all your global football stories straight from the back pages of Europe's newspapers in around 10 minutes.

•⁠ Gabriel Jesus mounts a superb Arsenal comeback at Brentford to keep their title dreams alive 

•⁠ ⁠⁠Huge blow for West Ham, as Jarred Bowen out for 6 weeks with broken foot 

•⁠ ⁠⁠January transfer window opens, as Liverpool turn down Real Madrid’s advances for Trent Alexander-Arnold and Manchester United are heavily linked with Viktor Gyökeres 

•⁠ Matheus Cunha banned for two matches for snatching glasses 

•⁠ ⁠⁠Old Firm preview 

•⁠ ⁠⁠Rog sits down with the greatest living chess player, Magnus Carlsen

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

This episode was made in the UK for Men In Blazers by…

Host: Sammy James 

Producer: George Cooper

Researcher: Jack Collins

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