04/19/24: Liverpool's Europa exit, Martinez's penalty antics, Benfica's curse continues

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: Liverpool and West Ham fail to climb their mountains in the Europa League, Roma win the battle of Italy, Emi Martinez allows us to learn a new law of the game, a preview of this weekend's footy including El Clasico in Spain and hear about why Portuguese giants Benfica have a European 'curse' that will now stretch to 62 years.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

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

Host: Betty Glover

Producer: Sammy James

Exec Producer: George Cooper

Researcher: Jack Collins

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