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Exclusive: Deleted Chapter From “Mentality Monsters” – Cup Games and How They Tend To Affect League Form
Read moreThe following is a chapter omitted from the final draft of the book, in part in order to keep…
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Liverpool Don’t Have Momentum. They Have Quality, Guts and Goals
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 106 commentsRead moreWe’ve been wary of the concept of momentum on this site for many years, with research suggesting that it’s…
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Lurching In Football, and How the Pendulum Is Almost Impossible To Stop Swaying
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 32 commentsRead moreDriving my son home from a friend’s 18th birthday party in a midnight downpour on Saturday night, it struck…
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Liverpool: 6/6, 15/15, 115 out of 132, Plus At Least 8 World-Class Players
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 48 commentsRead moreAs I get to within a couple of years of turning 50, the number of times in my life…
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The Tomkins Times Turns 10 Today! – A Special Free Friday
in Free, Free Friday / / 67 commentsRead moreToday marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of The Tomkins Times, originally designed as a paywalled site purely for…
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Why Liverpool in 2019 Were The Best-Ever European Champions
Read moreWhy Liverpool in 2019 Were The Best-Ever European Champions Okay, so that’s a bold claim. But bear with me. With…
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BREAKING NEWS: Roberto Firmino Arrested
Read moreLate last night Roberto Firmino was arriving back at his Merseyside home when, as the security lights blinked on,…
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Liverpool Overcome Thuggish Anti-Football – Because They Cannot Be Bullied
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 42 commentsRead moreThe odd thing about this record-breaking Liverpool team is just how little outsiders seem to understand it; and at…
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Reds Start Season Perfectly To Become Record Breakers
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 29 commentsRead moreThree league games, three wins. But go back further, it’s 12 league wins on the bounce, to equal the…
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Big Data Study: Referees Are Biased Against Foreign Players
Read moreIn the seven Premier League seasons prior to 2019/20, there were over 600 penalties awarded, and at The Tomkins Times…
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Maturing Liverpool Winning Trophies Just Like Old Times (Version 2!)
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 8 commentsRead more(Note: this is a re-post. Our server crashed earlier and the original version of this article, and the comments…
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Liverpool FC Entering the Twilight Zone
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 32 commentsRead moreAt one point in an admittedly strange first half Liverpool looked like putting eight past Norwich, and so there…
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Liverpool FC, Made Better By Time, Coaching & Klopp’s Unique Genius
Read moreAt an average of more than one per year across a nine-year period, between 2009 and 2018 Liverpool sold…
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A Fan’s Choice: An American Perspective on the 2019 U.S. Liverpool Preseason Tour
Read moreBy: Amy Gaeta. The U.S. Liverpool Preseason tour was everything you’d want from for the club, full stop: filled…
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“Liverpool Don’t Look Ready” – Preseason Anxieties Justified?
Read moreWell, let’s be clear: it’s hard to look ready when your players only finished their competitive club season in…
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Free Chapter From “Mentality Monsters”: Barcelona Humbled
Read moreBonus chapter from Mentality Monsters: How Jürgen Klopp Took Liverpool FC From Also-Rans To Champions of Europe Nothing was won;…
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Outstanding Brewster is a Generational Talent Who Can Become Reds’ Best Ever
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 27 commentsRead moreWith a positive and infectious attitude, sensational finishing skills, electric pace and now the body of a fully grown…
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New Liverpool FC Book Scandal – All Copies To Be Burned, Pulped and Shredded
Read moreThe crushing news came today: I had just written a book that, apparently, was utterly meaningless, because Liverpool had…
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To Understand Liverpool’s Past Transfers, and Summer Plans, It Might Help To Read This
Read moreWith my new book (Mentality Monsters) out for almost a week now and topping the Liverpool FC chart on…
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Mentality Monsters: How Jürgen Klopp Took Liverpool FC From Also-Rans To Champions of Europe
Read moreFireworks fizzed and popped and sprayed as the phalanx of scarlet coaches inched along the streets. Flares and smoke bombs…
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Update On My New Liverpool FC Book
Read moreHere is an update for subscribers all about my new Liverpool FC book, which is out soon! The book was…
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Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #27 – 1993/94
Read moreIntroduction (by Paul Tomkins) With the summer promising to see me busy finishing writing and producing my new Liverpool FC…
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Important Update for Subscribers
in By Paul Tomkins, Site News / / 141 commentsRead moreThis is an important update for those subscribers who have preordered the special edition of my new book, complete…
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Be Warned – Liverpool Will Be Even Better Next Season. This Team Ain’t Going Away
Read moreIt’s still sinking in that Liverpool are European Champions for a sixth time, in a season when it felt…
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Liverpool Champions of Europe Again – And It’s Totally Deserved For An Amazing Season
Read moreGET IN! Never has a team that didn’t have its best game (certainly in terms of possession and midfield…
