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: Newcastle beat Arsenal 2-0 on the night to progress to the Carabao Cup final at Wembley with a 4-0 win on aggregate; in the Coppa Italia, AC Milan beat Roma 3-2 to progress to the last four; Real Madrid break Léganes’s hearts with a last minute winner in the Copa Del Rey quarter-finals; Bayer Leverkusen progress to the semi-finals of the German cup; Neymar has made his second debut for Santos; we preview Thursday’s game between Liverpool and Spurs in the Carabao Cup; and the Premier League bring in a new rule about celebrations.

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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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