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Paul Tomkins
Babel Born Again, Torres Tortures Tomkins
in Premium / / 30 commentsRead moreAs is the case following any birth, it’s early days. But the past week has shown a new Ryan Babel…
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Paul Tomkins
Disciples of Discipline – Sample Chapter from Red Race
in Book Extract, Free / / 2 commentsRead moreWhen a manager has less money to spend than his main rivals, and/or less time to build his dynasty and…
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Paul Tomkins
Andys Townsend And Gray Are Grating Again
in Member / / 25 commentsRead more“Just where do you get the best out of Steven Gerrard” asked Clive Tyldesley, with a sense of wonder, during…
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Paul Tomkins
Kuyt the Key to Johnson Success
in Premium / / 7 commentsRead moreIt’s unusual for me to start a piece by immediately contradicting the title, but the theme is less about Kuyt…
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Paul Tomkins
Goal Involvement August 2009 – Johnson Excels
in Liverpool FC - Goal Involvement / / 3 commentsRead moreGoal Involvement is a method of more fully assessing and ranking ‘assists’, that I devised for ‘Red Race’ (see full…
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Paul Tomkins
Title Lost In August?
in Free / / 7 commentsRead moreThis is my take on the Villa game, written mostly after the final whistle. A significantly different version of this…
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Paul Tomkins
The New Defenders: Ayala, Kyrgiakos and Johnson
in Member / / 3 commentsRead moreDaniel Ayala, the Spanish lad who looks like he’s swallowed a football (think less Adam’s apple, more Adam’s grapefruit), has…
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Paul Tomkins
N’Gog – Silent Assassin?
in Free / / 8 commentsRead moreUnbelievably, I’ve heard a few Reds criticising David N’Gog. Here we have a young import who has only played 458…
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Paul Tomkins
Knee Jerk Time
in Tomkins Rants / / 21 commentsRead moreThe knees have never jerked so hard. No surprise, I guess, but still the way doom can set in after…
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Paul Tomkins
Season Preview 2009/10 – Liverpool Squad Review
in Free / / 1 commentsRead moreSo, it’s less than a week away. Hope and dread return in equal measure. Two players of undoubted quality (Johnson…
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Paul Tomkins
Adios Alonso
in Free / / 4 commentsRead moreThis is a piece sent to .tv this afternoon, but which I’m guessing might be problematic for the official site…
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Paul Tomkins
Two Words For Real Madrid
in Free / / 8 commentsRead moreIf Alonso’s worth to Madrid is not as great, then to them he’s obviously not worth £30m. Fine. Walk away.…
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Paul Tomkins
Keeping Alonso Is Key To Success
in Free, Liverpool FC / / 5 commentsRead moreIt seems that Real Madrid aren’t going to go away. They think that Xabi Alonso is uniquely talented, but they…
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Paul Tomkins
Yossi Benayoun (Excerpt from Above Us Only Sky, 2007)
in Free, Liverpool FC - Books / / 3 commentsRead moreYossi Benayoun’s arrival at Liverpool could be seen as something of a good omen. A £5m signing from West Ham,…
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Paul Tomkins
Why should Rafa congratulate Ferguson?
Read moreI see that Rafa Benítez is being criticised for not congratulating Alex Ferguson upon United’s success. After the West Brom…
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Paul Tomkins
The Greatest Gift
in Free, Liverpool FC / / 0 commentsRead moreSent this to the official site, but will use it here too. Very personal piece, and explains why I may…
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Paul Tomkins
Persecuted and Abused: An LFC Writer’s Woes
Read moreIt’s been a stressful week. Frankly, I don’t know how I’ve coped. I’ve had to endure various humiliating insults, which…
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Paul Tomkins
Apologies Not Enough from the BBC
in Free, Tomkins Rants / / 3 commentsRead moreIt’s all very well the BBC’s Radio One Newsbeat team offering an on-air apology for their awful mistake about Hillsborough,…
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Paul Tomkins
The Return of the King: Dalglish Coming Back?
in Free, Liverpool FC / / 9 commentsRead moreThe news that Kenny Dalglish may return, in some capacity, to Liverpool is almost too good to be true. Quite…
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Paul Tomkins
Ferguson and Allardyce: Grow Up
in Free, Tomkins Rants / / 22 commentsRead moreI am still in shock at the reaction of Sam Allardyce and Alex Ferguson to a gesture made by Rafa…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Pride, Liverpool Passion: 4-4 at the Bridge
in Free, Liverpool FC / / 9 commentsRead moreTo score four goals, and still be in with a shout with five minutes remaining of an 180-minute tie –…
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Paul Tomkins
Insua, Ngog and ‘Defensive’ Liverpool
Read more(Irony alert.) It was great this weekend to see so many teams defending set-pieces perfectly with man-marking. Blackburn’s Christopher Samba…
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Paul Tomkins
Serenity Now
in Free, Liverpool FC / / 8 commentsRead moreSent to official Liverpool site, but put up here as well in the meantime. A lot of what I write…
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Paul Tomkins
Thoughts on the season so far
in Free, Liverpool FC / / 3 commentsRead moreAn interview I did for the Bleacher Report, answering questions on various aspects of the season so far: Interview here…
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Paul Tomkins
UEFA: take your oars and stick them where the sun doesn’t shine
in Liverpool FC / / 9 commentsRead moreIt wouldn’t be UEFA if they weren’t having a pop at the top English clubs. Ever since the top sides…