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 Carabao Cup third round features goals galore, including Chelsea beating Barrow 5-0 and some penalty heroics from Leicester’s Danny Ward; Kylian Mbappe is being assessed after being forced off during Real Madrid’s 3-2 victory over Deportivo Alavés; the Europa League is back on Wednesday, featuring Manchester United v FC Twente, and there are more Carabao Cup fixtures to look forward to; and President Biden welcomed Gotham FC to the White House.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

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

Host: George Cooper

Producer: Mikey Watson

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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