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Chris Rowland
My Day at the Match – Huddersfield Town (H) Oct.28th 2017
Read more1 – By Chris Rowland: After last Sunday’s horror show, there’s one bit of good news. Lime Street station is…
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Chris Rowland
Free Friday: Kicked in the Head and No Defence for the Defence
in Free, Free Friday / / 2 commentsRead moreThis week’s posts selected by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. 1 – Ding’s thoughts on us not signing a centre-back…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators: Part 8: “The Referee Could Not Have Been Closer”
Read moreBy Per Dantic. ‘The referee could not have been closer’ That phrase never seems to go out of fashion with…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators: Part 7: “In and Around”
Read moreBy Professor Per Dantic. That’s a fashionable phrase with the commentators now. ‘In and around’ has become very popular. What…
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Chris Rowland
My Day at the Match – Man Utd (H), Sat. Oct.14th 2017
Read moreAnyone who’s read my My Day At The Match articles will know that the pincer movement of the uncertainties of…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators Part 5: “He Can Do That.”
Read moreBy our Secret Correspondent P. Dantic. That’s a fashionable phrase with the commentators now. The main commentator tells us that…
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Chris Rowland
Are We All in This Together?
Read moreBy TTT Subscriber Joe Bloggs. I’ve got a genuine question here for all, as again, as while the result is…
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Chris Rowland
My Day at the Match – Burnley (H) Sept. 15th 2017
in My Day at the Match, Subscribers Only / / 8 commentsRead moreBy Matthew Beardmore (TTT Subscriber Matt B). The day starts bright and early with my two organic alarm clocks (a…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators Part 4: “He Just Wanted it More”
Read moreBy Our Mystery Correspondent P. Dantic. You hear a lot of commentators say that. ‘He just wanted it more’. They…
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Chris Rowland
My Day at the Match – Manchester City (A) Sept 9th 2017
Read moreI broke my ‘never in Manchester’ rule on Saturday by going to a match there. Let me qualify that –…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators Part 3: “It’s a Game of Fine Margins”
Read moreBy Our Mystery Correspondent P. Dantic. It’s a phrase that comes up in commentary a lot. They tell us ‘It’s…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 2 – “At This Level You Will Get Punished”
in Media Muppet of the Week, Media Watch, Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 16 commentsRead moreBy our mystery correspondent P. Dantic. That’s something commentators sometimes like to say isn’t it? ‘At this level you will…
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Chris Rowland
Free Friday: Klopp and Character, Pigeon Poo and Full-Backs
in Free, Free Friday / / 8 commentsRead moreBy Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. Here is our weekly round-up of five extracts from articles or comments that have appeared on the…
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Chris Rowland
My Day at the Match – Crystal Palace (H) August 19th 2017
Read moreBy TTT Subscriber REDM: It’s the first home match of the season and we leave the house at just after…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit v The Commentators, Part 1 – “You Can See What it Means to Him”
Read moreBy Mystery Correspondent P.Dantic. That’s a popular thing to say with commentators now: “You can see what it means to him”…
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Chris Rowland
Philippe Coutinho, FSG and Game Theory
Read moreBy TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen, responding to Paul Tomkins’ ‘Football Is No Fun Anymore’ article. Tour de force Tomkins… well…
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Chris Rowland
Free Friday: Agents, Safe Seating and Balotelli’s Niece
in Free, Free Friday / / 5 commentsRead moreBy Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. Here is our weekly round-up of five extracts from articles or comments that have appeared on the…
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Chris Rowland
The Age of Goliath Part 2 – Previewing the 2017/18 Premier League
in In-Depth Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 14 commentsRead moreBy TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen. In Part 1 Mark followed his general set-up with a detailed study of financially doped trio…
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Chris Rowland
Listen to Jürgen: Coutinho is Not For Sale.
Read moreThis superb comment was posted on July 26th, just after midnight UK time, by TTT Subscriber Joe Bloggs. It’s so…
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Chris Rowland
The Age of Goliath Part 1 – Previewing the 2017/18 Premier League
in Free, In-Depth Analysis / / 15 commentsRead moreBy TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen. This season is different. The top six has become so unpredictable that such certainty no longer exists.…
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Chris Rowland
Free Friday: Keita, Fitness and Fun & Games
in Free, Free Friday / / 1 commentsRead moreBy Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. Here is our weekly round-up of five extracts from articles or comments that have appeared on the…
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Chris Rowland
A Banquet Without Wine – The New TTT LFC Book
Read moreOn December 2nd 2015, the first part of a series of articles was published on The Tomkins Times, under the generic…
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Chris Rowland
Progress at a Price?
Read moreImagine a world where there was no mobile phone, no satellite and cable broadcasting, no goals to watch or players…
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Chris Rowland
Free Friday: Scary Salah, Goal Involvement & the End of Deadwood
in Free, Free Friday / / 3 commentsRead moreBy Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. Here is our weekly round-up of five extracts from articles or comments that have appeared on the…
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Chris Rowland
Free Friday – Complicated Coutinho, Mentors, and TTT Player of the Year Results
in Free, Free Friday / / 8 commentsRead moreBy Chris Rowland, Daniel Rhodes and Paul Tomkins Here is our weekly round-up of five extracts from articles or comments that have…