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Chris Rowland
Should Sport Be Fairer Than Life In General? – The TTT Debate
Read moreBy Various TTT Subscribers, authors, staff and dungeon-dwellers. How important is fairness in sport? Is the whole point that…
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Chris Rowland
Liverpool’s Defensive Unit Combinations – The Remarkable Truth!
in In-Depth Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 53 commentsRead moreBy TTT Subscriber Anthony O’Brien. I heard a comment after the Chelsea match on the radio (by a sports…
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Chris Rowland
How Much Does Each Point Cost the Premier League’s Top Sides?
in Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 11 commentsRead moreWe thought we’d covered pretty much every statistical base on TTT over time. Squad costs, check. Transfer spend (net…
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Chris Rowland
It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Best of Times
Read moreWritten by TTT Subscriber Mike Taylor (*with apologies to Charles Dickens for nicking and then inverting his quote! –…
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Chris Rowland
All About Winning: What Liverpool Can and Should Do to Win Within New Brexit Rules
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 5 commentsRead moreWritten by TTT Subscriber Paul Grech (Twitter). This is the final part of this Brexit trilogy. Follow the links…
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Chris Rowland
Brexit: A Whole New World For Football, and How Points Will Determine Who Gets In
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 6 commentsRead moreWritten by TTT Subscriber Paul Grech (Twitter). (Click here to read to Part 1 ) In a depressed market…
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Chris Rowland
Why New Brexit Rules Will Not Have a Big Impact on Liverpool’s Academy
in Free, Talking Point / / 10 commentsRead moreWritten by TTT Subscriber Paul Grech (Twitter). “I can trust him. If I asked Eddie to play in goal…
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Chris Rowland
Football With VAR is a Different Sport – and Not the One You Love
Read moreBy Mark Cohen. It would appear that ‘subjectivity’, the human element of officiating as it were, was the one…
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Chris Rowland
Free Friday, 18th December 2020: Adieu, Gérard, et Merci
in Free, Free Friday / / 1 commentsRead moreBest posts of the week: Chosen by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. Buy our latest publication: Issue One of…
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Chris Rowland
A Season to Remember: 2000-2001
Read moreHere we go gathering cups in May .. By TTT Subscriber Anthony Stanley. We didn’t see this one coming.…
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Chris Rowland
RIP Ray Clemence – Tribute to a True Liverpool Legend
Read more“England’s England’s number 1, England’s number 1”. I wonder how many times Ray Clemence heard that cascading down from…
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Chris Rowland
All You Ever Wanted To Know About The Premier League Transfer Window In The Year Of Covid
Read moreSo on October 5th we closed, locked and shuttered up the summer/autumn 2020 transfer window ahead of what could…
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Chris Rowland
How To Recognise The Start Of Decline And How To Avoid It
Read moreWritten by TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. As the 2019/20 season finally reached a conclusion, Liverpool FC stood on top…
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Chris Rowland
Free Friday, September 25th 2020: No-Look Fizzers & the Best Ever LFC Squad?
in Free, Free Friday / / 3 commentsRead moreBest posts of the week, as chosen by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes: Here are some comments we’ve picked…
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Chris Rowland
Book Review – The Lost Shankly Boy- George Scott’s Anfield Journey, by George Scott with Jeff Goulding
Read moreGeorge Scott arrived at Anfield in 1960 as a 15 year-old poor boy from Aberdeen, just after Bill Shankly’s…
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Chris Rowland
What Would Thiago Alcantara Bring to Liverpool FC?
in Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / / 172 commentsRead moreBy TTT Subscriber Andrew. Let me start with this – I think Thiago is an incredible midfielder. I grew…
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Chris Rowland
Book Review – Shanks, Yanks and Jürgen, by Bob Holmes.
Read moreShanks, Yanks and Jürgen traces the direct lineage between the two messianic managers who book-end the modern era of Liverpool…
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Chris Rowland
My Day At The Match: The View From Jail – Liverpool v Man City, 27th November 2011
Read moreThis article is part of The Tomkins Times Free Fortnight, where for two weeks up until the start of the…
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Chris Rowland
An End to 30 Years of Hurt…
Read moreThis article is part of The Tomkins Times Free Fortnight, where for two weeks up until the start of the…
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Chris Rowland
It’s a Strange Love (or How I Need to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)
Read moreWritten by TTT Subscriber Jonathan Naylor. “There is then, literally, nothing to describe it. I have exhausted all the…
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Chris Rowland
Liverpool and Manchester City: A New Rivalry for Our Times
Read moreIt’s been said that one thing Liverpool’s fans and Man Utd’s had in common is we both sang about…
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Chris Rowland
Is Jordan Henderson the Most Admirable Man Ever to Play For Liverpool?
Read moreBy TTT Subscriber Anthony Stanley. “Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but I think we paid the right…
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Chris Rowland
… and The Dance Goes On
in Free, Personal Thoughts / / 36 commentsRead moreBy TTT Subscriber Anthony Stanley. Anthony Stanley is the author of “A Banquet Without Wine: A Quarter-Century of Liverpool…
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Chris Rowland
‘Houdini In a Closed Mind’
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 23 commentsRead moreWritten by TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. Who among us would have a closed mind and an open mind? You…
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Chris Rowland
Matches That Meant Most To Me – No. 9
in Memorable Games, Subscribers Only / / 9 commentsRead moreBy TTT Subscriber Matthew Beardmore. An explanation, or a context if you prefer, or even a confession if you’re…