Author archive for Neil Jones

John Barnes, Liverpool legend
By Neil Jones in Editor's Pick, Guest Writer, Subscribers Only / June 25, 2010 / 40 comments
It is the 17th October, 1987. Liverpool are playing Queens Park Rangers on a surprisingly warm autumn afternoon at Anfield.…
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Robbie Fowler, The One and Only
By Neil Jones in Featured, Guest Writer, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / April 9, 2010 / 50 comments
The mid-nineties were a great time to be young in England. You had alcopops in your bloodstream, moody checked shirts…
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The Joy of Fernando Torres
By Neil Jones in Editor's Pick, Guest Writer, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / March 29, 2010 / 79 comments
Watching Fernando Torres at Atletico Madrid, there was always a nagging doubt in my mind about this rangy, tousle-haired darling…
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"Perhaps the most intelligent guide to LFC available on the internet"

The Independent on Sunday

“An ingenious and intelligent look beneath the surface to reveal what the headlines too often don’t tell us. Fascinating.”

Jonathan Wilson

“Golddust analysis”

John Sinnott, BBC

“[Football analysis] is best left to the professionals, like the admirable Mr Tomkins.”

Daily Telegraph

"Another triumph of impeccable research, Pay As You Play brings much-needed factual insight to a discussion previously dominated by half-truths"

Oliver Kay, The Times

"Very compelling arguments"

Gabriele Marcotti, BBC Radio Five Live

"Liverpool do happen to be blessed with supporters whose statistical analysis provides a lucid interpretation of where the club’s strengths and weaknesses lie, accessible through the Tomkins Times website.”

Ian Herbert, The Independent

The Tomkins Times

The Tomkins Times

John Barnes, Liverpool legend

Robbie Fowler, The One and Only

The Joy of Fernando Torres