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Do Liverpool Get The Results They Deserve? (Manchester United Special)
Cast your minds back a little over five years. At about 13:33 on a Sunday lunchtime in early September…
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Do Liverpool Get The Results They Deserve?
‘Deserve’ is a thorny term in football. In ‘The Numbers Game‘, Anderson and Sally famously wrote that a game…
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Hail The Cube! TTT Player of the Month for November 2018: Xherdan Shaqiri
“When the chips are down you look at your big players, you want your big players to bring magic…
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The Rise of Shaqiri, and the Importance of Our Attacking Full-Backs: Liverpool FC Data Viz Round Up
Episode Three Please be aware that while the visualisations work on mobile devices, they obviously look better on a larger…
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Foul Play for Firmino in the Premier League?
One of the many wonderful aspects of The Tomkins Times is that it acts as something of an ideas…
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Is This Liverpool’s Best Ever Defence in the Premier League Era?
With less than a quarter of an hour to go against Cardiff City, it looked like Liverpool would notch…
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TTT Player of the Month for October 2018: Joe Gomez
This probably seems like convenient timing. Paul Tomkins wrote an article following Liverpool’s recent 1-0 win at Huddersfield. It wasn’t…
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Liverpool’s Hardest Start to a Season Ever – in the Latest Data Visualisation
Episode Two Please be aware that while the visualisations work on mobile devices, they obviously look better on a…
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‘Steven Gerrard: Make Us Dream’ – The Beez Review!
The Tomkins Times is a well respected football site. It is not however accustomed to receiving invites to gala film…
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Liverpool and Manchester City: Closer Together Than Last Season’s Table Suggests?
If a week is a long time in politics, then it can feel like an eternity in football. Just…
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TTT Player of the Month for September 2018: James Milner
While dispatching half-decent sides like Southampton with minimum fuss undoubtedly has its merits, Anfield truly comes alive on European…
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Red Cards, Yellow Cards & Why Liverpool Don’t Get Penalties at Anfield
When you’ve been messing around with football statistics as long as I have, it’s rare to stumble across a…
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Knowing Your Enemy – the Stats Behind Liverpool’s Champions League Group C Opponents
Liverpool’s quest to go one better in the Champions League than they managed last season begins at Anfield on…
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Is The Reds’ Perfect Start to the Season Better Than Frasier’s “The Good Son”?
Throughout last season we ran a monthly round-up of post match radar charts, which illustrated how Liverpool had performed against…
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TTT Player of the Month for August 2018: Naby Keita
in By Andrew Beasley / / 54 commentsHere at The Tomkins Times, we’re always looking for new ideas – and here’s another. We’re introducing a Player…
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How Well Does Liverpool’s Pressing Work? Analysis With Some Surprises!
Understat is best known for being a good public source of expected goal data, but xG is not the…
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More Of The Same Please – How Liverpool’s 2018/19 Preseason Shaped Up
Played nine, won seven, drawn one, lost one, 27 goals scored and only eight conceded. Liverpool have had a…
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Liverpool Defending Set Pieces: Good, Lucky or Both?
Set piece goals are like buses. Or at least they were for Liverpool’s opponents in 2017/18. This is a…
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Alisson: Is Our Aim True? The Stats Have Their Say …
It won’t be breaking news to you that Liverpool have lodged a £62m bid for Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker.…
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Rounding Up Liverpool’s Post-Match Radars: Including The Champions League Final
For a full explanation of how the radars are calculated, please see the opening article in the series. Want…
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Post-Match Analysis: Liverpool 3 AC Milan 3, Champions League Final, 2005
These stats are 100% unofficial. I have had no formal training in how to collate them, but from years…
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Tactic Stats: How Liverpool Shape Up with a Back Three
This article uses data from Stratabet, which is different to the Opta stats which you will be familiar with. To…
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Why Liverpool Will Definitely Score In Rome
Well that was annoying, wasn’t it? Liverpool basically had two feet in the final when they were 5-0 up…
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Scouting The Opposition: Roma
Statistics correct as at 17th April 2018. Ahead of the last sixteen of the Champions League, I ran the…
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Beyond the Scoreline: Rounding Up Liverpool’s Post-Match Radars: Week 33
Although the title suggests these articles are weekly, it actually indicates how far through the season we are at…
