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Paul Tomkins
Exploding Cars, Friendships, and Seeing Liverpool vs Palace in the Flesh
Read moreWhile this will not be the most heralded achievement of Jürgen Klopp’s career – it will not light up…
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Paul Tomkins
Thiago Turns Mercurial Displays Into Consistency – Has He Nailed the Premier League?
Read moreHaving written about the joy of Alisson’s headed goal yesterday, I wanted to write something else, and focus on…
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Paul Tomkins
“Alisson!” One of the Best Ever Moments as a Liverpool Fan
Read moreWhile winning trophies and being in the Champions League can be painted as “everything”, sometimes the best things in…
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Paul Tomkins
So, Which One of You Made the Faustian Pact?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 82 commentsRead moreOkay, own up. Was it you? Just a few years ago, think of all the bargains we were making…
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Paul Tomkins
No Radical Rebuilding Required At Liverpool – An In-Depth Analysis
Read more(Note: I wrote this squad analysis before the news of the European Super League broke, and shelved it as…
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Paul Tomkins
A Damning Indictment of English Referees Regarding Foreign Players
Read moreI have spent the past month working continually on a project to assess the fairness of referees, including various…
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Paul Tomkins
The Most Dangerous Penalty-Box Premier League Players (and Winning Penalties)
Read moreAhead of the week-long officiating/refereeing/VARing/expected-penalties series (that will hopefully run next week), I thought I’d share part of the…
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Paul Tomkins
A Preliminary Peek at the Big TTT Premier League Officiating Study 2015-2021
Read moreIt’s clear that, this season at least (especially up until the midway point, when things were crazy), Liverpool have…
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Paul Tomkins
Imperious Defending: Ranking All the Premier League’s Centre-Backs 2011-2021, & the True Greatness of Van Dijk
Read moreCovered in this article, which is a deep dive into a decade of data on “pure” defending: – The…
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Paul Tomkins
A Quick Guide To Liverpool’s “Crisis” – Wake Up To The Facts (UPDATED)
Read moreUpdate: this article was written before Liverpool lost 1-0 at home to Fulham, but many of the points still…
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Paul Tomkins
The Biggest Issue Facing Liverpool FC – An Alternative Free Friday
Read moreDue to several injuries to the centre-backs at TTT Towers (including our reserve centre-backs, who were de facto central…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s £300m Summer Arrivals Revealed!
Read moreIn a secret deal, late last summer, Liverpool chose to sell Virgil van Dijk to Real Madrid, for a…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Don’t Lack Leaders Or Quality – They Have Plenty (At the Kirkby Rehab Gym)
Read moreDespite sitting down last night and writing thousands of words on the ongoing refereeing/VAR madness that seems to blight…
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Paul Tomkins
The Mother of All Black Swans In a Tailspin – TTT Subscribers & Writers Give the Real Reasons For Liverpool’s League Struggles
Read moreBy Paul Tomkins, Chris Rowland, Daniel Rhodes, Andrew Beasley and various members of the TTT community Liverpool got back…
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Paul Tomkins
Unbelievable Results For Liverpool – But Store the Pain to Use As Fuel to Go Again
Read moreI’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams…
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Paul Tomkins
Like Roy Keane, Are You Too Simple To Understand Liverpool’s Situation?
Read moreIn some ways Roy Keane is a complex character. A great player, and a fighter, he is unfortunately, but…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Dramatic Long Night Of The Centre-Backs
Read moreTwo new centre-backs – Preston’s Ben Davies and young Turkish international Ozan Kabak – signed before last night’s deadline,…
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Paul Tomkins
A Long (But Not Exhaustive) List of Liverpool’s Winter Woes
Read moreSo, what’s going wrong at Liverpool? I left the house this morning for the first time in a month,…
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Paul Tomkins
Title Race Not Even Half Run – And Injury-Hit Liverpool Still In With A Shout
Read moreGiven the litany of setbacks, it remains remarkable that Liverpool are still in the title race – although it…
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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 moreFirst published in December 2020 Three years ago (or, at a similar stage of the 2017/18 season, given that…