08/16/24: The Premier League is back

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: The Premier League begins on Friday with Manchester United v Fulham at 3pm Eastern; Ipswich, Southampton, and Leicester City return to the top flight; there will be changes in how VAR operates this season, with a new X account for the Premier League officials; Mauricio Pochettino will manage the USMNT remotely from his European base; Kalvin Phillips joins Ipswich on loan from Manchester City; Dutch giants Ajax and Greek team Panathinaikos play out a 25 minute penalty shootout.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

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

Host: Sammy James

Producer: Mikey Watson

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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