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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: Eighteen matches in the Champions League kicked off on Wednesday night at the same time, and we’re here to make sense of it all; Manchester City overcome a scare by Club Brugge to secure a spot in the playoffs; Ousmane Dembélé scores a hattrick to ensure PSG’s progression to the playoffs; Aston Villa and Lille secure top eight spots; PSV secured a playoff spot with a Ricardo Pepi goal; Jhon Duran looks set to move to Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia; Arsenal are fighting for the signature of Ollie Watkins; we preview Thursday’s Europa League games; and Unai Emery is salty about speculation around his star players.
Football don't sleep, and neither do we.
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Host: Betty Glover
Producer: George Cooper and Sammy James
Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard
Researcher: Jack Collins
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