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: Bayern Munich and Real Madrid play out a thrilling 2-2 draw in the Champions League semi-final, Ipswich on the brink of promotion, VAR announcements could be coming to the Premier League, UCL semi-final preview, and Sean Dyche's unlikely cameo.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we. 

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

Host: Betty Glover 

Producer: George Cooper 

Exec producer: Sammy James 

Researcher: Jack Collins

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