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Paul Tomkins
One of the Best Ever Crops of Reds’ Youngsters – But Can You Be Patient?
Read moreCan you hack it? Are you brave enough? Can you afford to wait for the maturation of an excellent crop…
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Paul Tomkins
Firm On Firmino: The Best In Europe?
Read moreWhen it comes to finishing, Roberto Firmino is not in the elite band of footballers in Europe. But in terms…
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Paul Tomkins
We’ve Seen The Future of English Football (Via Germany)
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 51 commentsRead moreI thought that, for once, the glaring cliché was true: that game had everything (including a glaring Clichy). Played at…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Fight to Overcome Big Brutish Bastards: Including The Case For Milner, Can and Lovren
Read moreBy Paul Tomkins, with additional research by Daniel Rhodes and Andrew Beasley. Interactive graphics by Robert Radburn. When he’s struggling…
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Paul Tomkins
Beautiful Goals Shows How Good Liverpool Can Be
Read moreSince the chastening defeat at Leicester I’ve been trying to look into Liverpool’s weaknesses, and what Jürgen Klopp can address…
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Paul Tomkins
Clustermotherfucking ARGGHHH!
Read moreFirst of all, let’s take the gloves off as Liverpool continue to experience a crappy 2017. On a brief personal…
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Paul Tomkins
Brutal British Bastardry: Tough Times for Arsenal, Liverpool and Others
Read moreThe travails of Arsene Wenger seem very familiar to me; indeed, in many ways they resemble what happened at Liverpool seven…
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Paul Tomkins
Winless Runs and Flightless Liverbirds – 60 Years of Recovering From Bad Form
Read moreSince 1959 there have been no fewer than 124 occasions when Liverpool have gone three or more league games without…
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Paul Tomkins
Form Is Temporary. Class Is … Improving
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 62 commentsRead moreThis season was always likely to be about building on what Jürgen Klopp inherited last season, and building something. This…
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Paul Tomkins
“Liverpool Have a Mid-Table Squad”
Read moreOkay, so I disappeared down a Twitter rabbit hole – or maybe wormhole (or even arsehole?) – of Liverpool having…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp Has Been Found Out. Sell All The Players. End the Season. Pack Up the Moon and Dismantle the Sun.
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 102 commentsRead moreWell, Liverpool’s form stinks. It reeks like rotten eggs left in the sun in the back of a Cadillac parked…
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Paul Tomkins
A Detailed and Frank Assessment of Liverpool’s Squad (PART TWO)
Read moreYesterday I posted my assessment of the first half-dozen members of the Liverpool squad, but only after a couple of…
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Paul Tomkins
A Detailed and Frank Assessment of Liverpool’s Squad (PART ONE)
Read moreWell, everyone is pretty pissed off right now, and with that all rationality goes out of the window. Talk of…
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Paul Tomkins
Emergency Football Mental Health First-Aid Kit: Break Glass!
Read moreIf you’re reading this then I am probably mentally dead. Liverpool have lost a game of football, and this is…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Draw at Man United: A Point Gained in the Long Run?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 91 commentsRead moreRegular readers may have noticed by now that I rarely predict the outcome of games. I see predicting the score…
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Paul Tomkins
This is the Healthiest Liverpool Football Club Has Been In Decades
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 59 commentsRead moreReading Jonathan Northcroft’s Sunday Times’ piece on Jürgen Klopp and Pepijn Lijnders (the Q&A for which can be read here),…
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Paul Tomkins
The Week That Wasn’t – Plus Important TTT News
in Site News, Subscribers Only / / 55 commentsRead moreAfter last summer’s revamp, I was finally able to set about analysing what works for TTT and what doesn’t in…
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Paul Tomkins
Stop Going Insane Over Setbacks in a Great Season
Read moreWell, maybe that’s what you get if you play two games with just a day between them. Liverpool were yet…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp’s Wonderful Liverpool Are Wham!’s Last Christmas
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 58 commentsRead moreIf ever a record was destined to finish top of the UK charts it was Wham!’s Last Christmas. It had…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp, Mourinho, Conte and Guardiola – Who’s Doing the Best Job?
Read moreSo, how does the job that Jürgen Klopp is doing compare with other new arrivals? (Also, for a great piece…
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Paul Tomkins
Merry Christmas to TTT Subscribers (And All Other Readers)
in By Paul Tomkins, Site News / / 32 commentsRead moreFirst of all, season’s greetings to all (yes, even the Man United fans who secretly read us), and many, many…
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Paul Tomkins
Derby Doozie Downs Dirty Dross
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 96 commentsRead moreIn all the years watching the Merseyside derby it’s hard to think of two worse tackles than the one Ramiro…
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Paul Tomkins
Adam Lallana and a Giant Plate of Humble & Mince Pies
Read moreNot many teams can go away from home at a team that has barely conceded a goal in its own…
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Paul Tomkins
John Achterberg is a Witch! Burn Him! (And Burn Karius Too)
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 33 commentsRead moreEver since Joe Corrigan was blamed for the ills of David James and others two decades ago I’ve considered the…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC and the Art of Surviving a Car Crash
Read moreFortunately – and here I’m touching wood (now now, missus) – I’ve never been in a serious car accident, although…