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: Manchester United are set to appoint Rúben Amorim as manager from Sporting CP; Napoli win away at AC Milan; Brentford and Southampton progress in the Carabao Cup; we preview the USWNT’s game on Wednesday against Argentina as well as the Carabao Cup fixtures; and Jamie Vardy shares the team he most enjoys winding up.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

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

Host: Betty Glover 

Producer: Mikey Watson and Sammy James

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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