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 performance came from nowhere didn’t it?
• Second half - so much better wasn’t it?
• Elliott, Nunez, Milner, Carvalho
• Fab, Thiago
• New team syndrome? Missing Mane? Not played well at Craven Cottage under Klopp

Part Two - elsewhere:

• Where will the threat come from? Spurs, Arsenal, City
• Relegation - Bournemouth, Leeds, Fulham?
• Refereeing again - e.g. ‘It’s so difficult to put a finger on why Manchester’s Paul Tierney has made so many generous decisions to Manchester United’. Mitrovic and Chilwell. This ‘crumpling’ is just awful - Maguire, Ben White, Chillwell. Does Mitrovic have English ancestry?

Part Three - belatedly, predictions:

• Top 4
• Relegated teams
• First manager to leave
• Player of the season

We’ll be back next week after Liverpool have played their second game. Thanks to Sean, Haitham and Daz. If you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us @FirstStateKopites on Twitter – we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible. Music is courtesy of Hypenotic – they are a Welsh electro-pop band – https://hyperfollow.com/hypenotic