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: It’s a decisive weekend in the Premier League title race, as Liverpool and Nottingham Forest win, and Arsenal drop more points at home to Aston Villa; Justin Kluivert scores a hat-trick for Bournemouth at St James’s Park; Everton beat Spurs 3-2 and cause more woe for Ange Postecoglou; Brighton beat the ‘worst’ Manchester United side in history; Manchester City win 6-0 at Ipswich and taunt their local rivals; Pochettino’s USMNT beat Venezuela; Juventus hosted AC Milan and Timothy Weah was on the scoresheet; the USWNT have named Alyssa Naeher as the 2024 US Soccer Female Player of the Year; we preview Monday’s football, Chelsea v Wolves; and JJ Watt makes a risky promise.

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

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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