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My Day at the Match – Bournemouth (H), February 9th 2019
Read moreBy Andrew Beasley. Nobody likes being woken by an alarm. When it’s for work, one likes it even less.…
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TTT Player of the Month for January 2019: Fabinho
Read moreJanuary 2019 could conceivably called the strangest month of Fabinho’s career. Yet he navigated it superbly to take The…
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A Quick Look at Liverpool FC’s Impressive Underlying Numbers
Read moreEpisode Five Following feedback received, this series will mostly not include the dashboards themselves, only screen shots of them. However,…
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Which is the Greatest Liverpool Team of Them All?
Read moreWith Kopites’ thoughts permanently focused on whether or not the Reds will end their wait for the title this…
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Defending at an Elite Level – A Ramble About Opposition Shots on Target
Read moreIt seems that it’s becoming almost an annual tradition for me to dip into Liverpool’s record with shots on…
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TTT Player of the Month for December 2018: Virgil van Dijk
Read moreThe concept of a greatest ever month doesn’t really work in football. And even it did, you’d probably choose…
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Post-Match Analysis: Manchester City 2-1 Liverpool
in By Andrew Beasley, Statistical Analysis / / 27 commentsRead moreThis looks likely to be a title race determined by the smallest of margins. Manchester City missed a late…
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Top of the League and Through Our CL Group: Liverpool FC Data Viz Round Up
Read moreEpisode Four Following feedback received on the last article, this series will no longer include the dashboards themselves, only screen…
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Gary Neville and Liverpool’s Power Hour
Read morePrior to the recent Everton vs Watford match, Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville were discussing how Liverpool have changed…
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Do Liverpool Get The Results They Deserve? (Manchester United Special)
Read moreCast your minds back a little over five years. At about 13:33 on a Sunday lunchtime in early September…
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Do Liverpool Get The Results They Deserve?
Read more‘Deserve’ is a thorny term in football. In ‘The Numbers Game‘, Anderson and Sally famously wrote that a game…
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Hail The Cube! TTT Player of the Month for November 2018: Xherdan Shaqiri
Read more“When the chips are down you look at your big players, you want your big players to bring magic…
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The Rise of Shaqiri, and the Importance of Our Attacking Full-Backs: Liverpool FC Data Viz Round Up
Read moreEpisode Three Please be aware that while the visualisations work on mobile devices, they obviously look better on a larger…
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Foul Play for Firmino in the Premier League?
Read moreOne of the many wonderful aspects of The Tomkins Times is that it acts as something of an ideas…
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Is This Liverpool’s Best Ever Defence in the Premier League Era?
Read moreWith less than a quarter of an hour to go against Cardiff City, it looked like Liverpool would notch…
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TTT Player of the Month for October 2018: Joe Gomez
Read moreThis probably seems like convenient timing. Paul Tomkins wrote an article following Liverpool’s recent 1-0 win at Huddersfield. It wasn’t…
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Liverpool’s Hardest Start to a Season Ever – in the Latest Data Visualisation
Read moreEpisode Two Please be aware that while the visualisations work on mobile devices, they obviously look better on a…
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‘Steven Gerrard: Make Us Dream’ – The Beez Review!
Read moreThe Tomkins Times is a well respected football site. It is not however accustomed to receiving invites to gala film…
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Liverpool and Manchester City: Closer Together Than Last Season’s Table Suggests?
Read moreIf a week is a long time in politics, then it can feel like an eternity in football. Just…
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TTT Player of the Month for September 2018: James Milner
Read moreWhile dispatching half-decent sides like Southampton with minimum fuss undoubtedly has its merits, Anfield truly comes alive on European…
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Red Cards, Yellow Cards & Why Liverpool Don’t Get Penalties at Anfield
Read moreWhen you’ve been messing around with football statistics as long as I have, it’s rare to stumble across a…
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Knowing Your Enemy – the Stats Behind Liverpool’s Champions League Group C Opponents
Read moreLiverpool’s quest to go one better in the Champions League than they managed last season begins at Anfield on…
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Is The Reds’ Perfect Start to the Season Better Than Frasier’s “The Good Son”?
Read moreThroughout last season we ran a monthly round-up of post match radar charts, which illustrated how Liverpool had performed against…
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TTT Player of the Month for August 2018: Naby Keita
in By Andrew Beasley / / 54 commentsRead moreHere at The Tomkins Times, we’re always looking for new ideas – and here’s another. We’re introducing a Player…
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How Well Does Liverpool’s Pressing Work? Analysis With Some Surprises!
Read moreUnderstat is best known for being a good public source of expected goal data, but xG is not the…
