In case you didn't watch football⚽️ today: >🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Arsenal got knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Fleetwood fookin Town (18th in the 4th tier of English football) >🇨🇳China suspended coverage of La Liga after Mbappe joked about his dictator meme joking about Mao Zedong >🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Arsenal became the 1st reigning Premier League champion to lose to a 4th tier side in the League Cup >🇫🇷PSG's Khvicha Kvaratskhelia had successful ACL surgery >🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿The Arsenal-Fleetwood match was stopped for 8 mins in the 2nd minute because a drone was flying over the stadium >🇪🇸Kylian Mbappe got dropped by 3 Chinese sponsors after joking about a meme of his face on Chairman Mao -Mbappe & La Liga's president both put out apologies to China >🇬🇧The UK Prime Minister's office refused to rule out knighting (Sir) Harry Kane after his Ballon d'Or win >🇪🇸Raphinha liked an IG reel saying: "They gave the Ballon D'Or to Kane but Raphinha was 5th last season despite having a similar case" >🇪🇸Lamine Yamal posted "IT WILL COME, good things take time" after finishing 3rd in the Ballon d'Or >🇮🇹Como came back from 1-0 down to beat Torino 3-1 with goals on 81', 87' & 92' -Nico Paz had a goal & an assist AGAIN & Como went up to 4th >🇮🇹Roma beat Cagliari 4-2 & went 3rd, 1 pt above Como >🇮🇹Lazio beat Sassuolo 6-2 & missed 2 pens to stay top of Serie A -They're 8W 1D in 9 games despite fans boycotting home games against the owner >🇩🇪DFB-Pokal results: -Dortmund 3-2 Werder Bremen -Köln 5-0 Union Berlin -Eintracht Frankfurt won 3-1 at Hamburg -Bochum 2-0 Mainz >🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Michael Carrick took training & will stay Man Utd manager for Saturday's game vs Chelsea >🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Wayne Rooney's 16 y/o son Kai scored 4 goals in Man Utd U18s' 6-0 win vs Burnley >🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Xabi Alonso said João Pedro will be out "a few weeks" with a thigh injury -Chelsea scored 0 goals in the 2 PL games he missed this season >🇪🇸Espanyol sacked manager after losing 4-3 to 4th tier Sestao River in the Copa del Rey on a 121st minute winner >🇩🇪Bayern staff gave Kane a guard of honour on his first day back at training >🇫🇷Ligue 1 moved 3 of Saturday's games because of the protests across France >🇪🇺UEFA banned Lens fans from their UCL away games at Leipzig & Liverpool for throwing flares at Brugge >Let me know what I missed If you love football but don't have time to scroll twitter all day — I post one of these recaps every night... Follow me pookie

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