• Free, QuickBlog

    Posted on April 23rd, 2009

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    Persecuted and Abused: An LFC Writer’s Woes

    It’s been a stressful week. Frankly, I don’t know how I’ve coped.

    I’ve had to endure various humiliating insults, which I thought I’d got used to after years of exposing my opinions to world at large.

    The internet is the insulter’s dream medium, with its faceless warriors, but now it’s spreading into my personal life. [...]

  • Free, Tomkins Rants

    Posted on April 21st, 2009

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    Apologies Not Enough from the BBC

    It’s all very well the BBC’s Radio One Newsbeat team offering an on-air apology for their awful mistake about Hillsborough, in which they claimed that the official report blamed Liverpool fans for the tragedy. But that won’t correct the mistruth in the minds of all those who only heard the original broadcast, and who missed [...]

  • Free, Liverpool FC

    Posted on April 19th, 2009

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    The Return of the King: Dalglish Coming Back?

    The news that Kenny Dalglish may return, in some capacity, to Liverpool is almost too good to be true. Quite simply, the timing could not be better.
    Dalglish’s presence may have undermined previous managers, but Rafa Benítez now has the strength of position to have someone like the legendary no.7 onboard without it causing an imbalance [...]

  • Free, Tomkins Rants

    Posted on April 17th, 2009

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    Ferguson and Allardyce: Grow Up

    I am still in shock at the reaction of Sam Allardyce and Alex Ferguson to a gesture made by Rafa Benítez after the second goal against Blackburn Rovers last week.

    I’ve never heard anything more pathetic in my life. The gesture that has led both men to publicly attack Rafa is so vague that he [...]

  • Free, Liverpool FC

    Posted on April 14th, 2009

    Written by Paul Tomkins

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    Liverpool Pride, Liverpool Passion: 4-4 at the Bridge

    To score four goals, and still be in with a shout with five minutes remaining of an 180-minute tie – that looked over after 90 – was an incredible effort by the Reds. It did the club proud on the eve of such a significant anniversary.

    I was all set for a brave display but somewhat [...]

  • Free, QuickBlog

    Posted on April 12th, 2009

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    Insua, Ngog and ‘Defensive’ Liverpool

    (Irony alert.) It was great this weekend to see so many teams defending set-pieces perfectly with man-marking. Blackburn’s Christopher Samba did a brilliant job against Torres, who is five inches shorter; Newcastle dealt brilliantly with Stoke; and Bolton, Chelsea, Arsenal, Hull and Aston Villa all defended corners and free-kicks to perfection. Over the weekend, not [...]

  • Free, Liverpool FC

    Posted on April 9th, 2009

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    Serenity Now

    Sent to official Liverpool site, but put up here as well in the meantime.

    A lot of what I write is based on the premise that there are always at least two ways to look at pretty much everything in football.

    Very few things in the game are clear-cut. Pros and cons exist with almost everything, be [...]

  • Free, Liverpool FC

    Posted on April 5th, 2009

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    Thoughts on the season so far

    An interview I did for the Bleacher Report, answering questions on various aspects of the season so far:

    Interview here

    Thoughts on the Fulham game will appear on .tv this week, hopefully tomorrow.

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