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.

On today’s episode: The top-of-the-table clash between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool ends in a draw; Manchester City drop yet more points, as Brentford hold them at the G tech; Reese James scores for Chelsea as Bournemouth leave Stamford Bridge with a point; West Ham win Graham Potter’s first game in charge against Fulham; no Premier League clubs have been charged with a PSR breach; Arsenal’s Gabriel Jesus will be out for the season with an ACL injury; Gen Zeagles inspire a PSV comeback over Excelsior in the Dutch cup; we preview Wednesday’s games in the Premier League, including the North London derby and David Moyes’s first game back as Everton head coach; and Plymouth Argyle’s new manager gives us goosebumps. 

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

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

Host: Betty Glover

Producer: George Cooper and Sammy James

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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