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Paul Tomkins
Naby Keita Can Unleash Torrent of Goals & More To Come From Salah
While we don’t yet quite know how Naby Keita will fit into Jürgen Klopp’s tactical system – or even…
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Paul Tomkins
How VAR Would Help Liverpool Based On World Cup Usage
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 27 commentsI spent a lot of last season mystified by the refusal of referees to give Liverpool penalties in an…
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Paul Tomkins
Excerpt From “Boom! How Jürgen Klopp’s Explosive Liverpool Thrilled Europe”
The following is an excerpt from my Introduction to the Tomkins Times’ book “Boom! How Jürgen Klopp’s Explosive Liverpool…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Make A Really Stupid Signing
Well, thanks a bunch, Liverpool FC. How inconsiderate can you get? Here at TTT we are scrambling to pull…
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Paul Tomkins
Experience Beat Inexperience, But Young Liverpool Side Gained Vital Knowledge For Bright Future
By my quick calculations I believe Real Madrid’s starting XI had no fewer than 31 previous Champions League Final…
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Paul Tomkins
All Or Nothing Final Ends In Nothing, But Reds Have It All Ahead
Well, that sucks – but as 40-1 outsiders as the start of the season you have to take the…
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Paul Tomkins
2018 Champions League Final – In-Game Commenting
in By Paul Tomkins, Match Discussion / / 692 commentsThis is a specially created page to deal with posts during tonight’s final and in the immediate aftermath. It should…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool vs Real Madrid – Why Liverpool Can Win The Final Of Opposites
First of all let me say that, right now, this feels like Schrödinger’s Final. Such has been the wait…
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Paul Tomkins
Football Managers and Shelf-Lives – Rising Stars, Imperial Phases and Diminishing Returns
I’ve heard it said – by Jonathan Wilson amongst others – that football managers usually only get a decade…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Achieve Season’s Aim and Now Can Blow The Bloody Doors Off
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 110 commentsMy deep-delves into data these past couple of years – which have bordered on obsessions – have shown that,…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp Performing Miracles That Some Liverpool Fans Don’t Deserve
How many English clubs have reached the Champions League final in the last seven seasons and also finished in…
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Paul Tomkins
Jürgen Klopp Is A Winner! Reaching Champions League Final An Incredible Achievement
Before people get too pissy about Jürgen Klopp losing his last five cup finals – noted as soon as…
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Paul Tomkins
Blitzkrieg With Beauty – Liverpool Made A Good Roma Team Look Bad
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 97 commentsThe future of football. A young Liverpool side, average age 24 – the youngest in the Premier League. Fast.…
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Paul Tomkins
Spending, Relative Wealth and Heritage: Guardiola No Better Than Wenger? (And Much More)
Lately a few people on TTT have been saying that they’ve had discussions with Man City fans who seem…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Turn Teams Inside Out, With Pace, Stamina, Skill and Verve
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 87 commentsThe intricacies of movement of this Liverpool team attacking makes for a ballet on amphetamines. Transverse runs, reverse passes,…
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Paul Tomkins
Look At This List For Proof of Klopp’s Miracles With Liverpool
To be honest, I thought Liverpool would struggle tonight, and in fairness the first half confirmed my worst fears.…
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Paul Tomkins
Warnings From History For Liverpool Ahead of Monumental City Clash
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 108 commentsThe worst feeling in sport is not losing; the worst feeling in sport is losing when you thought you…
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Paul Tomkins
Everton 0 – Liverpool Reserves/Injured/Fatigued Players 0
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 64 commentsBragging Rights Are Shallow and Hollow Derbies are essentially all about dick-swinging (or, to provide equality, the rarer female…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Liverpool Can Win The Big Prizes Under Klopp
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 63 commentsThe other day Daniel Rhodes published a superb piece on this site about how, in many key metrics, Liverpool…
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Paul Tomkins
The Power of the Klopp Meets the Power of the Kop. Boom!
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 38 commentsA proper top manager. That’s what it looks like. Proper ideas, proper philosophy, proper charisma. City clearly have more…
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Paul Tomkins
Almost Half Liverpool’s Outfield Players Would Get Into This Marvellous Man City Side
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 23 commentsThere’s a vogue for “hybrid” teams when two sides go head to head, and they are always flawed, ignoring…
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Paul Tomkins
Refereeing Scandals – Penalties Go To Brits – Continue to Make Life Hard For Liverpool
And so it continues – Liverpool, one of the best attacking sides seen in England in the past 20…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Liverpool Will Keep Salah & Firmino and Improve the XI This Summer
Or: Why Salah and Firmino Would Be Mad To Want To Leave Liverpool The fact that Liverpool really did not…
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Paul Tomkins
Walk On Thru the Wind, Walk On Thru the Snow: At Anfield To See Reds Demolish Watford
For the last 15 years, due to chronic illness, I have tended to mostly only go to games in…
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Paul Tomkins
Placing Refereeing Bias against Liverpool and Foreign Players on the Spot: Yet More Damning Evidence
Okay, before I get onto the new evidence, which I feel shows two areas of officiating bias that are…