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Paul Tomkins
Man City Scandalously Lucky With Fixtures – Liverpool Shafted. But Reds 6 Pts Clear
inRead moreYou know it might be Liverpool’s season when they win their 2nd Kop-end penalty (in the Premier League) since…
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Liverpool Have Had Their Champions League Success Cancelled. (Plus, Book News)
By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 39 commentsinRead moreThe latest in a long line of supposed mic-drops from rival fans is that, should any Liverpool fan mention…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Cheated By Atkinson and His Goons But Proudly Still Unbeaten
inRead moreBy the end of next weekend Liverpool will have played FOUR Big Six fixtures. FOUR! (Assuming that you can…
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Exclusive: Deleted Chapter From “Mentality Monsters” – Cup Games and How They Tend To Affect League Form
inRead moreThe following is a chapter omitted from the final draft of the book, in part in order to keep…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Don’t Have Momentum. They Have Quality, Guts and Goals
By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 106 commentsinRead moreWe’ve been wary of the concept of momentum on this site for many years, with research suggesting that it’s…
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Paul Tomkins
Lurching In Football, and How the Pendulum Is Almost Impossible To Stop Swaying
By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 32 commentsinRead moreDriving my son home from a friend’s 18th birthday party in a midnight downpour on Saturday night, it struck…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool: 6/6, 15/15, 115 out of 132, Plus At Least 8 World-Class Players
By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 48 commentsinRead moreAs I get to within a couple of years of turning 50, the number of times in my life…
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Paul Tomkins
The Tomkins Times Turns 10 Today! – A Special Free Friday
Free, Free Friday / / 67 commentsinRead moreToday marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of The Tomkins Times, originally designed as a paywalled site purely for…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Liverpool in 2019 Were The Best-Ever European Champions
inRead moreWhy Liverpool in 2019 Were The Best-Ever European Champions Okay, so that’s a bold claim. But bear with me. With…
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Paul Tomkins
BREAKING NEWS: Roberto Firmino Arrested
inRead moreLate last night Roberto Firmino was arriving back at his Merseyside home when, as the security lights blinked on,…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Overcome Thuggish Anti-Football – Because They Cannot Be Bullied
By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 42 commentsinRead moreThe odd thing about this record-breaking Liverpool team is just how little outsiders seem to understand it; and at…
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Paul Tomkins
Reds Start Season Perfectly To Become Record Breakers
By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 29 commentsinRead moreThree league games, three wins. But go back further, it’s 12 league wins on the bounce, to equal the…
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Paul Tomkins
Big Data Study: Referees Are Biased Against Foreign Players
inRead moreIn the seven Premier League seasons prior to 2019/20, there were over 600 penalties awarded, and at The Tomkins Times…
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Paul Tomkins
Maturing Liverpool Winning Trophies Just Like Old Times (Version 2!)
By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 8 commentsinRead more(Note: this is a re-post. Our server crashed earlier and the original version of this article, and the comments…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC Entering the Twilight Zone
By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 32 commentsinRead moreAt one point in an admittedly strange first half Liverpool looked like putting eight past Norwich, and so there…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC, Made Better By Time, Coaching & Klopp’s Unique Genius
inRead moreAt an average of more than one per year across a nine-year period, between 2009 and 2018 Liverpool sold…
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Paul Tomkins
A Fan’s Choice: An American Perspective on the 2019 U.S. Liverpool Preseason Tour
inRead moreBy: Amy Gaeta. The U.S. Liverpool Preseason tour was everything you’d want from for the club, full stop: filled…
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Paul Tomkins
“Liverpool Don’t Look Ready” – Preseason Anxieties Justified?
inRead moreWell, let’s be clear: it’s hard to look ready when your players only finished their competitive club season in…
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Paul Tomkins
Free Chapter From “Mentality Monsters”: Barcelona Humbled
inRead moreBonus chapter from Mentality Monsters: How Jürgen Klopp Took Liverpool FC From Also-Rans To Champions of Europe Nothing was won;…
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Paul Tomkins
Outstanding Brewster is a Generational Talent Who Can Become Reds’ Best Ever
By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 27 commentsinRead moreWith a positive and infectious attitude, sensational finishing skills, electric pace and now the body of a fully grown…
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Paul Tomkins
New Liverpool FC Book Scandal – All Copies To Be Burned, Pulped and Shredded
inRead moreThe crushing news came today: I had just written a book that, apparently, was utterly meaningless, because Liverpool had…
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Paul Tomkins
To Understand Liverpool’s Past Transfers, and Summer Plans, It Might Help To Read This
inRead moreWith my new book (Mentality Monsters) out for almost a week now and topping the Liverpool FC chart on…
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Paul Tomkins
Mentality Monsters: How Jürgen Klopp Took Liverpool FC From Also-Rans To Champions of Europe
inRead moreFireworks fizzed and popped and sprayed as the phalanx of scarlet coaches inched along the streets. Flares and smoke bombs…
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Paul Tomkins
Update On My New Liverpool FC Book
inRead moreHere is an update for subscribers all about my new Liverpool FC book, which is out soon! The book was…
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Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #27 – 1993/94
inRead moreIntroduction (by Paul Tomkins) With the summer promising to see me busy finishing writing and producing my new Liverpool FC…