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: Basement boys in the Championship, Plymouth Argyle, knock Premier League leaders Liverpool out of the FA Cup with a 1-0 home win; Villa dump Spurs out of the FA Cup as more pressure is piled on Ange Postecoglou; Man City escape a scare at Leyton Orient following a wonder-goal with a 2-1 win; the Madrid derby ends 1-1; Christian Pulisic provides two assists as AC Milan beat relegation-threatened Empoli; Josh Sargent scores for Norwich and Ethan Horvath is the hero for Cardiff in goal; ticket prices for the FIFA Club World Cup have been reduced; and Queens Park pull off a giant-killing in Scotland.

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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