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Oct 2023
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10/2/23: VAR chaos, Puli Puli Puli, "the...

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This is Early Kick Off from the Men in Blazers Media Network, all your global football stories straight from the back pages of Europe’s newspapers in around 10 minutes.

On today's episode: Saturday's crazy game between Spurs and Liverpool, as a VAR blunder took centre-stage, all the weekend's biggest matches, Rangers sack their manager, the WSL returned and Hwang Hee-Chan has the last laugh at Pep Guardiola.

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