First State Kopites

Part 1 - Real Madrid: If the dust has settled, what do we think? Where we as poor as some would have it or somehow struck by the misfortune of it all and had trouble responding after the 3rd goal Team selection? Refereeing! Part 2 - Newcastle: Were we more solid? Them going down to 10-men really affected the flow of the match - complete control to a slightly chaotic second half. We are the only te...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s February 16th, and it’s episode 22 of our 4th season. welcome dear listener. I’m Paul and today I am joined by Sean. We are here to talk about our first league victory of 2023. Fears of a Sean Dyche masterclass quickly dissipated.  Thanks for jo...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s January 25th, and it’s episode 20 of our 4th season. welcome dear listener. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Justin. Well, we don’t like Chelsea and we don’t enjoy not beating them - somehow sent us off to talk geopolitics, philosophy, and finding...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s January 18th, and it’s episode 19 of our 4th season. welcome dear listener. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Justin. It’s January 18th - Reds suffered a desperately disappointing loss at Brighton last weekend , but last night recorded a nice win i...

It’s episode 18 of our 4th season. Happy new year dear listener - whether you are a subscriber, a casual listener or you stumbled on us by mistake. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Sean. It’s January 11th - Reds have played 3 League games and 2 cup games since the break. Our goal is to separate the Twitter commentary from the facts. Reds are not in the best shape, what do we think is wrong and...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 17 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz, Justin and Haitham. It’s December 6th - Reds haven’t played for 3 and a half weeks. So much speculation about ownership, transfer windows, and the return to action in just over a week. An...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 15 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Enrique. It’s October 26th, Reds just beat Ajax in the Champions League group game to qualify for the knockout rounds in 2023. Want to review what happened since we last talked about L...

On the road for this one - no frills, just good content about the Reds, focusing on their win over Man City

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 13 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Sean. It’s October 10, we are supposed to be in crisis. Barney Ronay claims it’s time for a Viking Funeral with Jordan Henderson part of the boat to be sent out to sea. Confidence or t...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 12 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Enrique and Daz. It’s October 2, we just restarted the season and have 10 matches coming in the next 40dTA Part 1 - Brighton game - good, bad indifferent Trent was obviously to blame…. Created...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 11 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Haitham and Sean. Part 1 - win over Ajax Seems fitting that after one of worst European results, we come back against the team that inflicted the worst - a 5-1 away in December 1966 in Amsterd...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 10 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Sean. Was supposed to be 2 games a week for the foreseeable future. Part One - Newcastle home win “I enjoyed the win but we should have played more football,” said Jurgen - Dan Kennett...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 9 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Sean. Well that’s not a bad way to get going: Part One - review the 9-0: We said was going to be difficult or ugly Klopp comments about team meeting Diaz, Elliott, Trent, Robbo - positi...

It’s episode 8 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Haitham and Sean. We began last week by saying that the 2022-23 season has not started the way we all hoped. And it always worse Losing to the Mancs - never a good experience Much debate over performances - was it individual errors, poor shape, or a lack of intensity? Did we just give them too much hope. xG - 2.02 vs 1.5 Playing like Nu...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 7 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Sean. The only thing reasonable to say this week is that this 2022-23 season has not started the way we all hoped. Part One - Crystal Palace - mixed feeling about the performance First...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. It’s episode 6 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Sean. The season has started, and for the first time in the Klopp ear, Liverpool did not start with a win Part One - Fulham - apparently not an easy win First half - ooof. This performa...

Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. it’s episode 5 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Haitham, The countdown is on for the season - 5 days to go till we take on Fulham Part 1 - Excited to chat about beating those entitled ‘Cityzens’ comprehensively! Darwin Nunez aga...

Thanks for joining Haitham and me, Paul, on a special edition looking at the exciting women’s Euros. 4 quarter finals finished up on Saturday: If you haven’t watched, you’ve got 3 games left to see what you’ve been missing. The standard we think is very high - a better watch than MLS we’d say. Review the 4 games: Spain - England: Bonmati looks a talent, Del Castillo gave Rachel Daly a tough second...

Thanks for joining us on First State Kopites - it’s episode 4 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Justin and Daz. The countdown is on - 6 days to the Community Shield, 13 days to the season start Part One - Liverpool leather Leipzig Nunez obviously Who else? Salah, Elliott, Carvalho, Bacjetic, Milner Leipzig beat Southampton days before this - they do seem predisposed to let in a lot of...

Thanks for joining us on First State Kopites - it’s episode 3 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Enrique and Haitham. The countdown is on - 2 weeks to the Community Shield, 3 weeks to the season start Part One: Reds on tour in Thailand and Singapore 4-0 to Man United. Simon Brundish said he only watched the first 30 minutes, could have been 6-1 to Liverpool. Players in the last 30 minu...

Thanks for joining us on First State Kopites - it’s episode 2 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Justin, Daz and Haitham. In part 1 we talk about expectations about how we will line up for 2022-23 season. It’s less than 4 weeks to the season opener at Fulham. We’ll talk a lot about our expectations for the season in the next few weeks, we wanted to start with an actual listener questio...

Welcome to the latest  edition of First State Kopites. It’s episode 1 of season 4 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).    It’s Paul joined by Sean, Daz and Haitham to preview the 2022-23 season.   Now that we’ve seen most (all...

Welcome to the latest  edition of First State Kopites. It’s episode 40 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube). It’s Paul joined by Enrique and Haitham to review the 2021-22 season. Sean is busy today and for Daz if you are listening...

Welcome to the latest  edition of First State Kopites. It’s episode 39 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube). It’s Paul joined by Sean and Daz to the Champions League final, certainly not in the way we’d hoped or expected. We may g...

Welcome to the latest  edition of First State Kopites. It’s episode 38 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube). It’s Paul joined by Sean and Daz to reflect on a slightly disappointing end to the Premier League season and then onto ou...