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Paul Tomkins

Evidence That Liverpool Are Now Exceptional (FREE READ)
Already this season I’ve been impressed by a number of pieces of evidence that have emerged on how much…
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Daniel Rhodes

Free Friday: A Group of Apprehension, First Team Pathways and Perceived Strengths and Weaknesses
in Free, Free Friday / / 3 commentsPosts selected by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. The idea of this round-up is to give you all some…
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Gary Fulcher

18/19 Premier League Preview | Matchweek 4 | Leicester (A)
in Match Discussion, Subscribers Only / / 334 commentsLiverpool travel to Leicester for another Saturday Premier League kick off – 12.30pm UK time – before the first international…
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Daniel Rhodes

Around the World in xG Data: How Do Liverpool Compare Against 350 Teams Across 21 Leagues?
One of the biggest problems when trying to use, track and analyse expected goal models is the lack of…
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Andrew Beasley

TTT Player of the Month for August 2018: Naby Keita
in By Andrew Beasley / / 54 commentsHere at The Tomkins Times, we’re always looking for new ideas – and here’s another. We’re introducing a Player…
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Chris Rowland

My Day at the Match – Brighton (H), August 25th 2018
in My Day at the Match, Subscribers Only / / 16 commentsBy Shanks Choudhry (TTT Subscriber Masterjee). Woke up around 7:15am with butterflies in my tummy – like getting…
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Paul Tomkins

“Terrible” Liverpool Top of the League
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 61 commentsWell, that was about the worst 2nd half at Anfield in a long time – certainly in terms of…
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Daniel Rhodes

Post-Match Analysis: Brighton & Hove Albion (H)
in Post Match Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 18 commentsUsually when a team outshoots another by 22 attempts to six it’s a fairly comprehensive victory and folk are eulogising…
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Daniel Rhodes

Free Friday: Lazy Punditry, a Tiring Narrative and Getting a Return On FSG’s Investment
in Free, Free Friday / / 7 commentsPosts selected by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. The idea of this round-up is to give you all some…
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Gary Fulcher

18/19 Premier League Preview | Matchweek 3 | Brighton (H)
in Match Discussion, Subscribers Only / / 262 commentsLiverpool continue their Premier League campaign with a home match against Brighton on Saturday evening – 5.30pm kick off…
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Chris Rowland

How Liverpool FC Are Making The Remarkable Feel Routine
By Jonathan Naylor (TTT Subscriber REDM). I had a strange sensation during the opening game of the season versus…
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Paul Tomkins

Brilliant Liverpool Win Again, But Have Already Lost 7 Games This Season
Two outstanding – albeit contrasting – victories for the Reds, without conceding a goal, continues to bode well for…
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Daniel Rhodes

Post-Match Analysis: Crystal Palace (A)
in Post Match Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 71 commentsIn many ways this was the more impressive of the two performances so far this season. Travelling to Crystal Palace…
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Daniel Rhodes

Free Friday: Catching Lightning in a Bottle & Lawro Winning More Than Spurs
in Free, Free Friday / / 6 commentsPosts selected by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. The idea of this round-up is to give you all some…
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Andrew Beasley

How Well Does Liverpool’s Pressing Work? Analysis With Some Surprises!
Understat is best known for being a good public source of expected goal data, but xG is not the…
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Gary Fulcher

18/19 Premier League Preview | Matchweek 2 | Crystal Palace (A)
in Match Discussion, Subscribers Only / / 467 commentsLiverpool got their Premier League campaign of to an emphatic start with a 4-0 victory against West Ham Utd last…
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Krishaldo

The Summer Transfer Window Takes a Bit of a Holiday (Except For Liverpool …)
The summer transfer window has slammed shut. Sort of. Deadline day, whilst providing us with a great deal of…
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Paul Tomkins

I’m Now Convinced: This Is Liverpool’s Best Team Since 1987/88
A message sent to the BBC during Liverpool’s 4-0 drubbing of a remodelled West Ham side read “Liverpool fans,…
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Chris Rowland

We Go Again – My Day at the Match – West Ham Utd (H), August 12th 2018
And we’re off – for the first competitive game since Kiev. Not that this journey takes quite as much…
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Daniel Rhodes

Post-Match Analysis: West Ham (H)
in Post Match Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 36 commentsNot a bad way to calm the Sunday-game nerves that were creeping in pre-match… it felt like complete domination from…
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Gary Fulcher

18/19 Premier League Preview | Matchweek 1 | West Ham Utd (H)
in Match Discussion, Subscribers Only / / 345 commentsThe silence of night is broken by the sound of footsteps on gravel followed by silence. The trees are swaying…
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Daniel Rhodes

Free Friday: Anfield in 1950 & Football at a Cultural Crossroads
in Free, Free Friday / / 1 commentsPosts selected by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. The idea of this round-up is to give you all some…
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Chris Rowland

The Runners and Riders For the Premier League 2018/19. Hope In Our Hearts Being Replaced By Expectation?
in In-Depth Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 28 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen. In days of yore, there used to be a certainty in the football world…
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Daniel Rhodes

Can Shaqiri Really Shake It As A Number Ten?
in Subscribers Only, Video Analysis / / 22 commentsIt’s a bit of a rollercoaster journey when it comes to the reputation of Xherdan Shaqiri: one of Europe’s…
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Andrew Beasley

More Of The Same Please – How Liverpool’s 2018/19 Preseason Shaped Up
Played nine, won seven, drawn one, lost one, 27 goals scored and only eight conceded. Liverpool have had a…