Jimbo's joined by Duncan Alexander, Tom Williams and Colin Millar to take stock after a night of pure drama at Blundell Park as Manchester United suffered the indignity of being dumped out of the League Cup by League Two Grimsby Town.

We dial up a Mariners fan - actor, presenter and comedian Lloyd Griffith - and The Athletic's Manchester United reporter Laurie Whitwell to discuss the extraordinary scenes in Cleethorpes as Ruben Amorim's side plumbed new depths.

Then we turn out attention to the weekend's Premier League action - headlined by the small matter of Liverpool v Arsenal at Anfield on Sunday afternoon. How will Liverpool's defensive chaos match up with Arsenal's more measured approach to these big games?

Elsewhere, can Tottenham continue their eye-catching start to the season under Thomas Frank when they host Bournemouth? Which Man City will we see at Brighton? And just how bad are West Ham ahead of their trip to the City ground on Sunday?

All that plus - age gap passes, minimal touches, cubic roots and chicken dinners.

Produced by Charlie Jones and Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Grimsby inflict League Cup shame on Man United - with Lloyd Griffith & Laurie Whitwell (01.05)

• PART 2a: Matchday 3 look ahead (22.15)

• PART 2b: Liverpool v Arsenal preview (24.10)

• PART 2c: Brighton v Man City preview (31.30)

• PART 2d: Tottenham v Bournemouth preview (35.45)

• PART 2e: Chelsea v Fulham preview - Liam Delap = math genus (39.00)

• PART 3a: Champions League qualifying fallout (42.00)

• PART 3b: Nottingham Forest v West Ham preview (48.20)

• PART 3c: Wolves v Everton preview (53.15)

• PART 4a: Aston Villa v Crystal Palace preview (56.55)

• PART 4b: Sunderland v Brentford preview (60.00)

• PART 4c: Leeds v Newcastle preview (62.25)

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Jimbo’s joined by Julien Laurens, Pol Ballús, Seb Stafford-Bloor and James Horncastle for your weekly dose of football chatter from across the continent.

We begin in Germany, where Bayern Munich got their title defence underway in emphatic fashion with a 6-0 thrashing of RB Leipzig. Harry Kane picked up where he left off last season, scoring a 13-minute hat-trick to take him to a ludicrous 65 goals in 64 Bundesliga games. Not such good news for Erik ten Hag’s Leverkusen though - beaten 2-1 by Hoffenheim at the BayArena.

In Ligue 1, despite the chaos off the field Marseille found some unity on it to beat Paris FC 5-2 at the Vélodrome, while PSG recorded another narrow 1-0 win as their underwhelming performances continued. Olivier Giroud stole the headlines with a 91st minute winner for Lille against Monaco - the 350th goal of his professional career!

Over in La Liga, there was late drama as Barcelona fought back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at Levante. Meanwhile Real Madrid made it two wins from two themselves in far more comfortable circumstances at newly promoted Real Oviedo.

And there were plenty of intriguing scorelines in the first week of Serie A - including Inter’s 5-0 rout of Torino, Max Allegri’s Milan beaten 2-1 by the promoted Cremonense - and KDB kicking off life at Napoli with a goal in their 2-0 victory at Sassuolo - but he'll have to go some way to take Scott's crown...

Produced by Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Unsatisfactory sausages & moments of the weekend (00.45)

• PART 2: Bundesliga review - Kane just scores goals - and Leverkusen just look bad (11.35)

• PART 3: Ligue 1 review - Marseille chaos continues as Giroud rolls back the years (24.55)

• PART 4: La Liga review - Barca stage yet another comeback as Real start strong (35.05)

• PART 5: Serie A review - Inter look angry while McTominay still wears the crown (48.05)

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Jimbo has Daniel Storey, Adrian Clarke and Mark Carey for company after an absorbing second weekend of the Premier League season.

Tenacious Tottenham make it two wins out of two with yet another victory away to Manchester City. Just how far can Thomas Frank take this side?

Arsenal thrash Leeds 5-0 with Viktor Gyökeres grabbing his first goals for the club. But it’s the debut of 15-year-old prodigy Max Dowman that has everyone talking.

Everton debut at their new stadium with a 2-0 win over Brighton. Tom Williams was there for us.

Nuno makes noises about trouble at Forest but his side battle back to draw at Selhurst Park in the CASico.

And what next for West Ham after Graham Potter suffers a home drubbing against his former club Chelsea?

Plus Morecambe’s special day and Coventry City - xG destroyers.

Produced by Charlie Jones.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Nuno Forest fallout? (01.00)

• PART 2a: Fulham 1-1 Man United (07.00)

• PART 2b: Palace 1-1 Forest (17.00)

• PART 2c: Everton 2-0 Brighton with Tom Williams (20.00)

• PART 3a: Man City 0-2 Spurs (31.00)

• PART 3b: Arsenal 5-0 Leeds (39.00)

• PART 4a: EFL happenings - Coventry hit 7 past QPR (51.00)

• PART 4b: West Ham 1-5 Chelsea (56.00)

• PART 4c: The rest of the Premier League weekend (63.00)

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