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Paul Tomkins
Special Festive Offer for TTT Subscribers (UPDATED)
Read moreIt’s the time of the year where we give and we share, so with this in mind, I’ve devised a…
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Paul Tomkins
Clusterf*cking Hell
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 168 commentsRead moreIt’s hard to make sense of a game where your team were literally a millimetre away from going 4-1 up…
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Paul Tomkins
One of Those Days Becomes One of Those Wins
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 63 commentsRead moreIt was a first half in which almost everything went wrong, including the stretchering off of Philippe Coutinho; on a…
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Paul Tomkins
Back in the Groove – Undisrupted Months Ahead for Klopp’s Reds
Read moreI don’t know precisely how much the international break affected other teams, but clearly it didn’t help Liverpool in their…
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Paul Tomkins
Stats Geeks, Bent Coppers and Proper Football Men
Read moreAKA ‘Good Old-Fashioned Policing’ Needed Science Too A lot has been spoken about football analytics in the past year, ever…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Are United, United Are Divided?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 121 commentsRead moreRight now the western world feels more divided than ever. The politics of division – of Brexit, of Trump, of…
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Paul Tomkins
Flashbacks To Vietnam and Bad LSD, Via Selhurst Park
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 75 commentsRead moreThe first half of Liverpool’s latest stirring victory was like a bad acid trip I took after returning from Vietnam…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Top-Notch Strength in Reserve: Klopp Has a Proper Squad
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 70 commentsRead moreLike it or not – and weirdly, some people don’t like it – but with Jürgen Klopp’s ‘preferred’ XI working…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Pass Another Tall Test – Klopp’s Reds Look Seriously Good
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 71 commentsRead moreMy first view across at the new Main Stand, sitting in my old season ticket seat in the Lower Centenary…
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Paul Tomkins
Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate!
Read morePART ONE We hate Nottingham Forest. We hate Everton too. We hate Man United… (and Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Spurs, ……
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Paul Tomkins
Kloppocolypse Now! A Detailed Assessment of Klopp’s First Year
Read morePART ONE The fact that so many people expected Jürgen Klopp to arrive with a bagful of miracles has possibly…
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Paul Tomkins
An Apology
Read moreI’d like to make an apology for my comments this weekend. On Saturday night I posted a comment in the…
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Paul Tomkins
Proof that Liverpool CAN Win the League
Read morePART ONE Proof Positive While it’s still only seven league games (plus two cup games away from home), Liverpool –…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp’s Blitzkrieging, Gegenpressing, Steamrolling Reds Stroll On
Read morePART ONE It’s early days, but with another thumping victory this already feels like a rather special Liverpool team, with…
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Paul Tomkins
New Ways to Subscribe to The Tomkins Times
Read moreAs part of our revamp and relaunch in the summer of 2016 the aim was to make the subscription process…
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Paul Tomkins
Loving Lallana as Reds Run Chelsea Ragged
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 95 commentsRead moreWhile his touches were not vital in winning the game – those came from Dejan Lovren and Jordan Henderson, with…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp and Liverpool – Sowing the Seeds of Something Special?
Read moreDuring the summer I noted on this site that, excluding the first couple of months of following his arrival, almost…
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Paul Tomkins
Anchors and Wankers: the Psychology and Reality of Transfer Prices
Read moreWhile the price of a Premier League footballer does indeed get further and further away from the financial realities of…
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Paul Tomkins
Dread, Despair, and Must-Win Insanity
Read moreBefore the Spurs match I found myself engulfed in a pall of dread. Like most fans I get nervous before…
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Paul Tomkins
This is an Intervention: Do We Have To Do This EVERY Time?
Read moreWhile I still love football, my joy as a supporter of Liverpool is diluted by the modern insanity of fans…
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Paul Tomkins
Stop Panicking! Deep Breaths…
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 166 commentsRead moreTwo games, both away from home: one superb win, one surprising – yet unsurprising – defeat. The “end of the…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Sublime Attacking Rips Arsenal To Shreds
Read moreAt the end of last season I noted, in an article assessing the line-ups over the campaign, that when Jürgen…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Liverpool Will Win the League! (And Why They May Not)
Read morePart One This summer vs Last Summer Every summer should bring optimism to a football fan – a clean slate,…
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Paul Tomkins
“It’s Alive!” Welcome to the New TTT
in By Paul Tomkins, Site News / / 238 commentsRead moreSo here we are, the new TTT, revamped and renewed; reborn and reclothed. It’s been a long two years to…
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Paul Tomkins
Welcome Wijnaldum, the New Stephen Ireland
Read moreBy Paul Tomkins. Liverpool have signed a player in Georginio Wijnaldum who has an impeccable pedigree: prolific for Holland –…