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: Tottenham and Manchester United serve up a seven goal thriller in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, and Spurs win 4-3; in the Europa Conference League, Chelsea beat Shamrock Rovers 5-1; Everton's takeover by the Friedkin Group has been completed; Southampton have agreed a deal to appoint Ivan Jurić as their new manager; we preview the Premier League fixtures this weekend; and Jamie Vardy is set to get the Netflix treatment.

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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