03/13/24: Arsenal reach Champions League quarters, German Cup fairytale continues, Napoli’s $11m bet

This is Early Kick Off from the Men in Blazers Media Network, all your global football stories straight from the back pages of Europe's newspapers in around 10 minutes.

On today's episode: we look back at all the action as Arsenal and Barcelona reach the quarter finals of the Champions League in dramatic fashion, FC Saarbrucken make it a hat-trick of cup scalps as the third-tier team knock out a THIRD Bundesliga opponent in a row, Ralf Rangnick leaves out three players from the Austria squad because of homophobic chanting, Liverpool legend Rafa Benitez is sacked by Celta Vigo, Al-Hilal set a new world record for wins in a row as they reach the Asian Champions League semi-finals, a preview of the Champions League action tonight and a big game in the Premier League, and Napoli owner Aurelio de Laurentiis has a wild night in Barcelona - fighting cameramen and dropping €10m bets. 

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

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Host: George Cooper

Producer: Alex Ewing

Researcher: Jack Collins

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