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Paul Tomkins
A Damning Indictment of English Referees Regarding Foreign Players
I 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)
Ahead 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
It’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
Covered 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)
Update: 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
Due 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!
In 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)
Despite 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
By 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
I’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?
In 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
Two 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
So, 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
Given 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?
Having 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?
Happy 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
Having 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 commentsThis 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 commentsJürgen 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
Three years ago (or, at a similar stage of the 2017/18 season, given that we started this bonkers season…
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Andrew Beasley
Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #2 – 2000/01
#2 – 2000/01 A note from Paul Tomkins: Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best, should really mean…
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Paul Tomkins
Reds’ Young Guns Are Having Some Fun
Reds’ 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
Not 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
This 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
Four big decisions went against Liverpool in this single game (in a season of bizarre big decisions going against…
