Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s episode 3 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and their friends. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform. 

Today Paul and Sean welcome Daz and  for the first time, Mark from the Delaware Supporters Club.  

Pre-season draws to a close - we explore what we learned and what expectations it’s raised: 

Chance to reflect on hopes and expectations for the new season: 

Last word on the pre-season review: 

Quick round - with some things that caught your eye this week: 

Thanks to all our guests - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter @firststatekopites - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible - so no Fabrizio Romano I’m afraid.

Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s episode 2 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and their friends. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform.

Pre-season week 2:

We close the episode with some things that caught our eye this week

Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s the first episode of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and their friends. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform

Review the summer - we reflect on

Pre-season and our latest thoughts:

We close the episode with some things that caught your eye this week

Thanks to all our guests - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible - so no, no Mbappe retweets

It’s the latest edition of the First State Kopites podcast - a podcast for Liverpool fans in Delaware and friends of Liverpool fans in Delaware. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or YouTube. Shout out to Kate from Venmore St who joined us a good crowd at Rooney’s today - May 23rd, 2021.

This is a special edition to mark the end of the 2020-21 season. Liverpool finished 3rd despite the worst defense of a title ever (thanks Roy Keane). We’ve invited back some of our favorite guests through our second season of First State Kopites:

Daz from Baltimore, Haitham from Chicago, Lingerr from San Fransisco, Enrique from Delaware

We talked about:

We also touched on the new kit, the ESL, Gini Wijnaldum and Mo Salah's goals

It’s the latest edition of the First State Kopites podcast - a podcast for Liverpool fans in Delaware and friends of Liverpool fans in Delaware. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or YouTube.

Recording May 16th, 2021, this week we have a Delaware Valley flavor to the podcast - joined by Lou from Philadelphia. Going to spend some time talking about the Philadelphia supporters club and then branch out into this week’s games and take a view of what we think is going to happen this season.

First  up, noticeable crowd at Catherine Rooney’s today - joined by Kieran Hardy aka the Liverpool Suit who is fund raising for Sean Cox. Donations can be made at - https://www.gofundme.com/f/running-a-marathon-for-sean-cox?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer.

Welcome to Lou from Philadelphia:

This week for the Reds:

Looking ahead:

It’s the latest edition of the First State Kopites podcast - a podcast for Liverpool fans in Delaware and friends of Liverpool fans in Delaware. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or YouTube.  Recording May 9th, 2021, Paul is joined by virtual pod regulars Haitham from Chicago and Daz from Baltimore. Recorded Mother’s Day, when Sean was being a model father by celebrating Mother’s Day with his wife and kids.  

This week: 

Big picture - hopes and expectations about the future: 

It’s the latest edition of the First State Kopites podcast - a podcast for Liverpool fans in Delaware and friends of Liverpool fans in Delaware. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or YouTube. Recorded May 4th, 2021 - 47 years since the Reds beat Newcastle United to win their 2nd FA Cup.  

Tim has rejoined Sean and Paul as we turn our attention to some developments in Germany -   

We chat about the non-happening United game and the fan protest about the Glazers: 

Looking to the Bundesliga: 

Elsewhere in LIverpool related news -  

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This week, we are joined by Daz and Enrique. Recording this after the Newcastle game on April 24th, 2021.  Newcastle game -  Our finishing - ARRRGGGGHHH Player review - standouts, needs a break  

Super League: 

o    Now that we’ve saved football, how can we really fix it? 

o    How many teams actually try to win? 

o    The reality of the skew of haves and have nots 

o     Nostalgia for a time when ‘anyone’ could win the league. 

o     The bloated champions league - thanks UEFA How many of the teams protesting the Super League would have signed up if asked? 

How many agendas have been on show this last week - Sky Sports, Arsenal fans, Pep and competiion How much hypocrisy has been spouted in the last 7 days? Fan ownership, what does good ownership look like? What qualifies as good owners? 

Perez - ‘Maybe we could have done better communications” ya think? 

Where is the room for good ideas in the world of social media? This collective seems to be fighting to save a current model (which has morphed over 30 years) which is heavily skewed towards clubs owned by very rich people. Hysteria about the league pyramid - reality is City would won it 4 times in a row if our magnificent team hadn’t been so brilliant last year

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Welcome to the latest edition. We are joined by Haitham and Justin. Recording this after the Leeds United game on April 19th, 2021.  In a week, where on the field the Reds served up a decent performance last Wednesday night, which wasn’t enough to advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League, and after the draw at Leeds United today we have just 6 matches left to finish in the Top 4. It is probably off the field that is currently grabbing most of the headlines - so yes we devote some time to the European Super League.  

In the review of the games, we assess where Liverpool are right now. Whose stock is rising and is there anyone who is going backwards?  Then onto the big news of yesterday’s announcement of the European Super League - we try to understand what’s going on and assess the outcry it has generated. And share our own views of the proposals (as far as we understand them).  

It was also the 32nd anniversary of the Hillsborough last week, and the news broke that the families have decided to shut down the family support group.

Recorded April 11th, 2020, we welcome Timucin Uras from American Scouser, which is a website for Liverpool fans across North America - they also have a podcast which we'd recommend. We talk about the origin of American Scouser and its future plans - www.americanscouser.com. If you are interested in contributing to American Scouser, please get in touch with Timucin.  

We also do some reflection on the 3 games that we’ve played since the last episode - mixed bag for sure. o   Arsenal - does this performance get devalued in the light of the Madrid match? o    Madrid - to what extent has the first half cost us? We talk about Madrid's tactics o    2-1 over Villa, how much of a psychological victory was this? o    3 goals in 3 for Mo, Jota - last 2 performances, reverting to mean?  

And we finish with our hopes and expectations for the return game with Real at Anfield.

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