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Paul Tomkins
Luis Suarez – The Hole Story
Read moreIt was fitting that it should be at the former home of the erstwhile excellent Fulham manager (and subsequently awful…
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Paul Tomkins
Adios Señor, Bonjour Monsieur
Read moreAdios Señor, Bonjour Monsieur: A Look At Liverpool’s Forays Into Different Transfer Markets I have to admit that I wholeheartedly…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Top of the ‘League’
in Free / / 34 commentsRead moreBy Paul Grech, with additional comments by Paul Tomkins For all of the positive feeling that has returned to the…
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Paul Tomkins
Kenny For Good?
Read moreLike most people, I expected Kenny Dalglish to give Liverpool a lift. While he wouldn’t have been my first choice…
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Paul Tomkins
Form and Formations: The New LFC
Read moreAssessing the overall tactical master-plan under the new management/coaching team of Kenny Dalglish and Steve Clarke, and guessing where it’s…
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Paul Tomkins
Media Muppet of the Month, April 2011
in Free, Media Muppet of the Week / / 81 commentsRead moreThis old chestnut is revived thanks to David Anderson of the Daily Mirror, who wrote a peach of a piece…
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Paul Tomkins
Saluting Lucas Leiva
Read moreBy Dave Cronin. Whisper it quietly but despite King Kenny’s calls for unity, Liverpool fans are still fighting a civil…
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Paul Tomkins
The Benefits of LeBron
in Subscribers Only / / 235 commentsRead moreBy Ben Stoneman. As all Liverpool fans surely know by now, LeBron James has entered into a marketing sponsorship with…
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Paul Tomkins
What Now for the Rest of the Season?
in Subscribers Only / / 239 commentsRead moreOnce out of the hunt for trophies, ranked as outsiders for Europe, and in no danger of relegation, seasons tend…
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Paul Tomkins
Hodgson Was Not the Worst Modern LFC Manager
in Free / / 98 commentsRead moreThat’s right: Roy Hodgson was not the worst modern LFC manager. (No, this is not an April fools’ joke.) To…
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Paul Tomkins
Steven Gerrard is Melting
Read moreFernando Torres was melting. Steven Gerrard is melting. Jamie Carragher has almost melted. So says Simon Kuper, in an indirect…
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Paul Tomkins
The Unwritten Law of Managerial Suitability
Read more“You don’t know what you’re doing” has to be the harshest phrase for a manager to hear from his club’s…
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Paul Tomkins
Carroll Needs Time and Patience
in Free / / 63 commentsRead moreFinally, some six weeks after signing, Andy Carroll squeezed his considerable frame into a Liverpool shirt and entered the action…
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Paul Tomkins
Envious of Arsenal
Read moreHumiliated in the manner of their League Cup final defeat, and given an awe-inspiring runaround in Barcelona, it seems that…
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Paul Tomkins
United Routed By Reds’ Unsung Heroes
Read moreAlthough United pulled back a last-minute consolation goal, there was no denying that this was a rout; not a total…
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Paul Tomkins
Where’s the Drama?
in Featured, Subscribers Only / / 165 commentsRead moreWhere’s the drama? Where’s the turmoil? Where are the stories of in-fighting and back-stabbing? Where are the leaked stories, planted…
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Paul Tomkins
Dalglish’s Golden XI vs Current LFC Side
in Subscribers Only / / 119 commentsRead moreYesterday marked the 20th anniversary of Kenny Dalglish’s resignation. First time around, his obvious high was 1987/88. Although 1985/86 –…
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Paul Tomkins
My Liverpool FC Prodigy XI
in Featured, Subscribers Only / / 35 commentsRead moreWith all the talk this week of Suso, Conor Coady and, in particular, Raheem Sterling, I thought I’d look back…
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Paul Tomkins
“From Where I Was Standing” Now On Kindle
Read moreChris Rowland, one of The Tomkins Times’ ‘staff’, released his first football book in 2009 – From Where I Was…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC Youth: The Golden Generation?
in Featured, Subscribers Only / / 75 commentsRead moreEarlier in the season, Liverpool played some of the best football seen anywhere in England. Unfortunately for Roy Hodgson, it…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool, Twitter and Rage
Read moreOne step forward, two steps back. That’s how the Wigan result was explained to me on Twitter. Four wins in…
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Paul Tomkins
The Word ‘Red’, Spread Around the World
in Book Extract, Subscribers Only / / 37 commentsRead moreWritten in 2007 for “Above Us Only Sky: Liverpool FC’s Global Revolution”, this is a chapter on the worldwide nature of…
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Paul Tomkins
How Much Time For a Manager is ‘Enough’?
Read moreA detailed study of Premier League managerial performance in relation to time spent at a club. By Lindsay Bell, with…
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Paul Tomkins
Kenny Dalglish: Permanent LFC Manager?
in Featured, Subscribers Only / / 260 commentsRead moreEvery appointment in football management comes with some degree of risk. Even if a manager has been there and done…
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Paul Tomkins
Benítez, The Great Money Waster?
Read moreJust when I think I’ve got little new to say about Rafa Benítez and his work at Liverpool, his record…