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Paul Tomkins
Goldilocks Zone: When Are LFC Better? More Or Less Rest?
Read moreHaving recently talked about Liverpool’s ‘Goldilocks zone’ under Jürgen Klopp – my feeling of what kind of interlude between…
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Paul Tomkins
Happy New Year! But What’s Going Wrong At Liverpool?
Read moreHappy New Year! And here’s a festive freebie to begin 2021… What’s Going Wrong At Liverpool? Multiple choice: A) Nothing…
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Paul Tomkins
For ‘Twas the Christmas of the Fat-Headed Fergie Acolyte
Read moreHaving just faced (and been dragged down by) the dogshitball of Sam Allardyce and his 11 defenders, Liverpool next…
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Paul Tomkins
Kloppy Christmas, Some LFC Thoughts, And A Dark Night’s Tale
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 70 commentsRead moreThis is a festive roundup, with some good wishes and a few stories (some off-topic), as Christmas rolls around…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Klopp Is The Undisputed Global Master
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 47 commentsRead moreJürgen Klopp, voted the world’s best manager for the second year in succession, ended the week in which his…
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Paul Tomkins
Just For The Record, It’s Time Again To Sack Klopp
Read moreThree years ago (or, at a similar stage of the 2017/18 season, given that we started this bonkers season…
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Paul Tomkins
Reds’ Young Guns Are Having Some Fun
Read moreReds’ Young Guns Are Having Some Fun Young Guns (Go For It) Every ten years or so I start…
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Paul Tomkins
Another New LFC Book! The Tomkins Times Quarterly, Issue One, Out Now
Read moreNot content with releasing Mentality Monsters in 2019 and Perched in 2020, I’m releasing another Liverpool FC book –…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC’s Bevy of Black Swans, and the Luck of Murphy’s Law
Read moreThis is a piece that will appear on our mailing list Substack for free on Friday evening, having first…
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Paul Tomkins
Tomkins Rants; Tomkins’ Head Explodes; Fuck The PGMOL
Read moreFour big decisions went against Liverpool in this single game (in a season of bizarre big decisions going against…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Reserves Losing a Game to Italians is No Big Deal
Read moreIt amazes me that people still fail to understand the importance of “team wavelength”, often fetishising individuals but not…
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Paul Tomkins
When I’m 64 (Unbeaten) – Liverpool Pummel Leicester (Free Read)
Read moreFor the third game running, Liverpool absolutely mullered Leicester on xG, with Sky showing the Reds’ two best ‘expected…
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Paul Tomkins
Jota Is The New Star, But Don’t Write Off Takumi Minamino
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 17 commentsRead moreDiogo Jota, like Sadio Mané, Virgil van Dijk, Alisson and Mo Salah before him, has slotted seamlessly into this…
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Paul Tomkins
A Very Good Point at City. And Why the League Table Is Lying
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 60 commentsRead moreAfter an outstanding first half which featured the usual preposterous VAR decision against the depleted Reds, it was a…
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Paul Tomkins
Diogo Jota Is Like A Wide-Starting Fernando Torres
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 20 commentsRead moreWhen watching Diogo Jota the other week – so even before the hat-trick tonight in the 5-0 away thumping…
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Paul Tomkins
BIG NEWS! Updates For TTT Subscribers
Read moreAfter two weeks of semi-sabbatical, I’ve been able to relax more than usual (so far so good!), but I’ve…
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Paul Tomkins
Patched-Up VAR-Battered Liverpool 3 Points Clear At The Top
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 38 commentsRead moreWith half a dozen world-class/top-class players out injured or ill (and a total of 12 internationals missing some or…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool 2 VAR 1 (Plus Very Important Site News for Subscribers)
Read moreCharged a fortune to watch a game in a soullessly empty Anfield, attempting to be ruined by amateurish buffoons…
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Paul Tomkins
Postcards From Obscurity – Tomkins In Exile As Reds Beat Ajax
Read moreOkay, so taking a total hiatus from writing about Liverpool isn’t so easy when the big games come thick…
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Paul Tomkins
Phantom Offsides and the Subjectivity of a Man as Blind as a Coot
Read moreWhile I’m taking some time off from the daily running, moderating, admin and interacting on this site, the urge…
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Paul Tomkins
Site News For TTT Subscribers
in By Paul Tomkins, Site News / / 60 commentsRead moreI discussed this on the Site News debate thread yesterday, but thought it was worth creating an actual article…
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Paul Tomkins
Deleted Chapter From “Perched”: How Liverpool Became United, And United Became Divided
Read moreWhat follows below is a chapter from Perched: Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool FC – Champions Of Everything, written in late…
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Paul Tomkins
Martin Atkinson’s Bias Against Liverpool – It’s In The Stats And Anecdotes
Read moreOn TTT we focus a fair bit on referees – and in particular the issue of penalties, as it’s…
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Paul Tomkins
Time To Stay Sane – Liverpool Thrashed By Wicked Deflections
Read moreWell, all I can say is that it’s a good job I set up the TTT Sanity Squad this…
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Paul Tomkins
The Toxic Rot of the Unhappy Superstar And How It’s Not An Issue For Klopp’s Liverpool
Read moreThe thing that many fans don’t seem to understand about superstars is the all-consuming vibe-drain that occurs when they…
