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: England legend Wayne Rooney is appointed manager of Birmingham City, two US-nationals are named as stars to watch by The Guardian, also a preview of Thursday's internationals, plus Wrexham's Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney discuss their new footballing nemesis.Football don't sleep and neither do we.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.