First State Kopites

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions and still the league leaders. We are going to review Galatasaray away earlier today and consider Palace last Saturday . I’m Paul and today I am joined by Daz and Justin.  Every reaction to both games starts with the result. Part one - away at Galatasaray Slot - lot to like in the first half, second half the b...

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions and current league leaders. We have a run of 3 away games in 7 days- first up away at Palace on Saturday and then at Galatasaray on Tuesday. I’m Paul and today I am joined by Daz and Sean.  Upcoming - Palace away. Unbeaten for 17 games 10 draws. Back 3 system played this way feels very hard to break down. Sar...

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions and current league leaders. We’re going to review Atletico at home last Wednesday and yesterday’s Merseyside derby. I’m Paul and today I am joined by Daz and Enrique.  Part one - Diego Simeone’s boys - great in concept but just awful in practice: Another last minute winner, after Atleti being the better team...

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions and current league leaders. This is a review of Burnley away last Sunday. I’m Paul and today I am joined by Daz.  Focus mainly on Burnley - 3 talking points: Were we lucky? xG of 2.65, OK not all great shots And the Red Card… Was the Burnley approach a surprise that we didn’t quite figure out 5-4-1 with a dis...

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions and current league leaders. We are back from the first international break, 2 more before the end of November (woo hoo).  We now start the 2 games each week grind - first up away at Burnley on Sunday and then home to Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid. I’m Paul and today I am joined by Daz and Justin.  We’ve jus...

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions and league leaders. It's the eighth podcast of the season so far. Reds now have three wins out of three going into the international break.  We beat Arsenal by 1-0 despite the prevailing narrative pre-game. I’m Paul and today I am joined by Daz and Sean.  Part One - God, Arsenal are a tough watch. STERILE...

Join us for a live post match conversation. As the Reds somehow overcome all their defensive frailties to win their third game in a row to lead the fledgling premier league table. Thanks to Enrique and you dear listener for joining us.

Reds have two wins out of two although I am not sure we can do this 36 more times. We face Arsenal at home tomorrow and no one who isn’t a Red thinks we have a chance of winning. And, it is at Anfield isn’t it? Arsenal have not won here for more than 10 years. Arsenal at home in August Memories of 2019 - 3-1 win? And there have been other wins in August against the pretenders Oh wait a minute, wor...

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. It’s August 27th. I’m Paul, joined by Daz. Little different today - just focused on reviewing the Newcastle game - 3-2 to the Reds. Lot to go at - hope to bring some perspective to what ends up being a nice, comfortable:()  win. Short version Newcastle turned this into a battle - with the rhetoric beforehand and the actions of certain players. I was fe...

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions. It's the fourth podcast of season 7. I’m Paul, joined by Sean and Daz. The new season started Friday night - we will reflect on the game against Bournemouth, look ahead to Newcastle and take a sideways glance at what went on elsewhere. Part One: Bournemouth at home: Acknowledging Diogo - beautiful from s...

Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions. It's the third podcast of season 7. I’m Paul, joined by Justin and Daz for the first time this season. The new season starts in 3 days - we will reflect on several things, including another week of Newcastle Gutter watch, the Community Shield and also look ahead as Liverpool seek to defend their title. P...

Welcome dear listener to the First State’s second podcast of season 7. The podcast of the Premier League Champions. I’m Paul and I am joined by Enrique. The new season starts in 2 weeks - we continue to look ahead as Liverpool seek to defend their title and we’ll reflect on what’s happened this summer.. Part One: The shadow hanging over this season: The Diogo patch on the shirt - good move but it...

Welcome dear listener to the First State’s podcast of Premier League Champions. It’s the first episode of our seventh season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean. The new season starts in just over 3 weeks - we’ll start to look ahead as Liverpool seek to defend their title and we’ll reflect on the sadness of the last 3 weeks. We are trying something new - we are at the home of the Official Liverpool...

Welcome dear listener to the podcast of Premier League Champions. I’m Paul and I am joined by Enrique and Daz. The season is over - well unless you ignore Gianni Infantino’s narcissistic monstrosity taking pace here in the US in the next few months. We are going to do one of our look backs at the season, Being Champions, The Big Red Weekend, and maybe we’ll start to look ahead as Liverpool seek to...

Welcome dear listener to the podcast of the 2024-25 Premier League Champions. I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean. We are recording this a week after the Reds picked up the Premier League trophy and had a very big parade. We’ll do a short review of the Palace game, look back at the big red weekend, reflect on PSG's Champions League win and then start to look ahead as Liverpool seek to defend thei...

Welcome dear listener to the podcast of the 2024-25 Premier League Champions. I’m Paul and I am joined by Justin and Daz. We are recording this after the Reds went to Brighton via Dubai to record another loss that doesn’t matter. Briefer pod than normal with a short review of the Brighton game and then look ahead to the big red weekend where Liverpool will face Crystal Palace in a preview of the C...

Welcome dear listener to the podcast of the 2024-25 Premier League Champions. I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean and Daz. We will review last weekend’s Arsenal game, and continue to reflect on a 20th top flight title. Obviously we will touch on the Trent situation. We will look ahead to the Brighton match and we’ll be looking around at what’s happening elsewhere. Part One - Arsenal at home - xG 1.92...

Welcome dear listener to the podcast of the 2024-25 Champions. I’m Paul and I am joined by Enrique and Daz. We will review the Chelsea game, and continue to reflect on a 20th top flight title. Obviously we will touch on the departure of Trent and the other noises around the squad. We will look ahead to the Arsenal match and we’ll be looking around at what’s happening elsewhere. Part 1 - Chelsea aw...

Welcome dear listener to the podcast of Champions. I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean and Daz. We will review the Spurs game, probably briefly, reflect on the events surrounding th game as Liverpool celebrated its 20th top flight title. We may look ahead to the Chelsea match and we’ll certainly be looking ahead….  Part 0 - the experience Crowds, songs and joy Part One  - Liverpool 5, Spurs 1 (xG 2.2...

Welcome dear listener to the latest episode. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz. We will review the Leicester game, look ahead to the Spurs match and then do our now typical wider view, of where everyone else is and maybe some next season chat.. Part One - Leicester Away - xG 0.27 to 3.03 The numbers tell us it was a walk in park - could have been 2 up in 11 minutes If this had’ve been 4 or 5 nil no...

Welcome dear listener to the latest episode. I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean and Daz. We will review the win over West Ham last weekend, look ahead to the Leicester game and then do our now typical wider view, now that we can be certain that Virg and Mo are sticking around and Liverpool are about to have a big summer. Part One - West Ham home - xG 1.78 to 1.50 - 1.34 to 0.77 in the first half Gam...

Today is the 36th anniversary of Hillsborough where 97 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed. Many lives were changed that day. To help understand the impact on Liverpool, the City, the people and those directly affected, we are airing an episode from Season 2 where we got to hear from 2 Hillsborough Survivors - Ritchie and Damien. It could be much better produced, but it was our most viewed episo...

Welcome dear listener to the latest episode. I’m Paul and I am joined by Justin and Daz. We will review the defeat at Fulham last weekend, look ahead to the West Ham game and then take a wider view, especially in the light of the news about Mo Salah’s contract. Part One - Fulham away - xG 1.5 to 0.74 (2H 1.45 to 0.22). ‘Fantastic Fulham win’ First half - terrible performance or a series of individ...

Welcome dear listener to the latest episode. I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean and Daz. We will review the Derby victory in some detail. Then we'll look at the Fulham game and briefly the last 7 games before the 20th title. Part One - Everton at home xG 1.47 to 0.67 (.53 to .03 in the second half) First half - not perfect, Curtis was great Jota blocked shot at 10 minutes - felt like a small sig...

Welcome dear listener to our extra episode. I’m Paul and I am joined once again by Enrique and Daz. We start up in 14 days at home to Everton. Annoying national narrative that this season has ended up being disappointing - mate, you didn’t live 2022 and 2024. Lots of post game chat about squad refresh and the seeming unlikelihood of resigning VVD, Mo and TAA. Position on FSG changing? We will be b...