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: Leeds beat Sunderland 2-0 in a top-of-the-table clash in the Championship; Barcelona move to the top of La Liga with a 1-0 win over Rayo Vallecano; Arsenal have been fined $82,000 for the reaction by their players to Myles Lewis-Skelly’s red card at Wolves; Casemiro wants to stay at Manchester United; Lionel Messi avoids a cold away day; Real Madrid are considering leaving La Liga in protest of refereeing decisions; we preview tonight’s Champions League games; and the first goal at the new Everton stadium is scored by an unfortunate player.

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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