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Paul Tomkins

Reds’ Young Guns Are Having Some Fun
Read moreReds’ Young Guns Are Having Some Fun Young Guns (Go For It) Every ten years or so I start…
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Paul Tomkins

Another New LFC Book! The Tomkins Times Quarterly, Issue One, Out Now
Read moreNot content with releasing Mentality Monsters in 2019 and Perched in 2020, I’m releasing another Liverpool FC book –…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool FC’s Bevy of Black Swans, and the Luck of Murphy’s Law
Read moreThis is a piece that will appear on our mailing list Substack for free on Friday evening, having first…
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Paul Tomkins

Tomkins Rants; Tomkins’ Head Explodes; Fuck The PGMOL
Read moreFour big decisions went against Liverpool in this single game (in a season of bizarre big decisions going against…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool Reserves Losing a Game to Italians is No Big Deal
Read moreIt amazes me that people still fail to understand the importance of “team wavelength”, often fetishising individuals but not…
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Paul Tomkins

When I’m 64 (Unbeaten) – Liverpool Pummel Leicester (Free Read)
Read moreFor the third game running, Liverpool absolutely mullered Leicester on xG, with Sky showing the Reds’ two best ‘expected…
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Paul Tomkins

Jota Is The New Star, But Don’t Write Off Takumi Minamino
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 17 commentsRead moreDiogo Jota, like Sadio Mané, Virgil van Dijk, Alisson and Mo Salah before him, has slotted seamlessly into this…
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Paul Tomkins

A Very Good Point at City. And Why the League Table Is Lying
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 60 commentsRead moreAfter an outstanding first half which featured the usual preposterous VAR decision against the depleted Reds, it was a…
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Paul Tomkins

Diogo Jota Is Like A Wide-Starting Fernando Torres
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 20 commentsRead moreWhen watching Diogo Jota the other week – so even before the hat-trick tonight in the 5-0 away thumping…
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Paul Tomkins

BIG NEWS! Updates For TTT Subscribers
Read moreAfter two weeks of semi-sabbatical, I’ve been able to relax more than usual (so far so good!), but I’ve…
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Paul Tomkins

Patched-Up VAR-Battered Liverpool 3 Points Clear At The Top
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 38 commentsRead moreWith half a dozen world-class/top-class players out injured or ill (and a total of 12 internationals missing some or…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool 2 VAR 1 (Plus Very Important Site News for Subscribers)
Read moreCharged a fortune to watch a game in a soullessly empty Anfield, attempting to be ruined by amateurish buffoons…
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Paul Tomkins

Postcards From Obscurity – Tomkins In Exile As Reds Beat Ajax
Read moreOkay, so taking a total hiatus from writing about Liverpool isn’t so easy when the big games come thick…
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Paul Tomkins

Phantom Offsides and the Subjectivity of a Man as Blind as a Coot
Read moreWhile I’m taking some time off from the daily running, moderating, admin and interacting on this site, the urge…
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Paul Tomkins

Site News For TTT Subscribers
in By Paul Tomkins, Site News / / 60 commentsRead moreI discussed this on the Site News debate thread yesterday, but thought it was worth creating an actual article…
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Paul Tomkins

Deleted Chapter From “Perched”: How Liverpool Became United, And United Became Divided
Read moreWhat follows below is a chapter from Perched: Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool FC – Champions Of Everything, written in late…
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Paul Tomkins

Martin Atkinson’s Bias Against Liverpool – It’s In The Stats And Anecdotes
Read moreOn TTT we focus a fair bit on referees – and in particular the issue of penalties, as it’s…
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Paul Tomkins

Time To Stay Sane – Liverpool Thrashed By Wicked Deflections
Read moreWell, all I can say is that it’s a good job I set up the TTT Sanity Squad this…
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Paul Tomkins

The Toxic Rot of the Unhappy Superstar And How It’s Not An Issue For Klopp’s Liverpool
Read moreThe thing that many fans don’t seem to understand about superstars is the all-consuming vibe-drain that occurs when they…
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Paul Tomkins

Beyond Doubt – Liverpool Now Have Their Strongest Squad Ever
Read moreGoing into the new season, it felt like Liverpool had a squad of peak-age senior players (plus the unmeltable…
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Paul Tomkins

Why Liverpool Will Definitely/Probably/Possibly Win The League Again
Read moreBefore the first game, against Leeds, I sat down to write my season prediction, but with so much going…
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Paul Tomkins

This Season Is A Free Hit For LFC – Enjoy The Ride, Or There’s No Point
Read moreWhile no season can be written off as not mattering, it’s also true that all outstanding runs come to…
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Paul Tomkins

Asshole! … (Free Sample Chapter From New Book)
Read moreAsshole! AKA: You Can Only Have Good Training With Good Trainers Excerpt from my brand new book, Perched: Jürgen Klopp’s…
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Paul Tomkins

Six Years Of Penalty Nonsense – How Liverpool’s Penalties Now Vanish Into Thin Air
Read moreBy Paul Tomkins These Numbers Stink! For a few years now I’ve been asking where Liverpool’s missing penalties are. The…
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Paul Tomkins

Introducing The Tomkins Times’ Free Fortnight
Read moreHaving set up a paywall upon introducing this site in 2009 (in order to help me finally make a…