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Paul Tomkins

Big FREE Read: Are Refs Biased Against Foreign Players? A Look at How To Win a Penalty in the PL
Moaning about the refereeing decisions your team faces is never a good look, and about as convincing as admitting…
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Paul Tomkins

You Can Keep Jose’s Long-Ball Bollocks, Homer Ref and Flukey Bullshit
Well, Man United fans – there’s your man, Jose Mourinho, beating Liverpool with long-ball football that made 1980s’ Wimbledon…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool Are Twice As Good As Man United (Kinda)
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 43 commentsWhile one XI/squad costing twice as much as another won’t make them twice as good (economies of scale apply),…
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Paul Tomkins

Salah, Van Dijk, Oxlade-Chamberlain & Robertson – Brand New Brilliance
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 45 commentsSalah May Be The Star, But Liverpool Have So Many Outstanding Performers The two youngest teams in the Premier…
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Paul Tomkins

Be Warned: Liverpool Are Coming Up The Hill, Boys (and Girls)
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 105 commentsWe want to go back to 1964-1990, but 2000-2002 and 2004-2009 are the fairest benchmarks The league title has…
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Paul Tomkins

Unity vs Philippe Coutinho – And Proof That Transfer Windows Cause Disruption?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 60 commentsWhen anyone – even in a nice way – tells me that I shouldn’t write about something, it often…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool Are Clearly One of the Best Sides in Europe
The influx of money into the Premier League – the continued rise of the new TV deals, booming gate…
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Paul Tomkins

Klopp Is Building a Team, Not Buying a Team
First of all, let’s be clear: all managers buy players. No team is ever eleven youth graduates, unless perhaps…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool Try To Defend A Lead, Officials Smoke Crack, Sensational Salah
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 203 commentsHere’s a little fact. Teams awarded Premier League penalties at Anfield this season: Spurs 2. Everton 1. Liverpool 1.…
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Paul Tomkins

The Tomkins Times Exists To Promote Mediocrity For Liverpool FC. Mediocrity Rules!
We’re not really doing free articles for the rest of this season, but as the fanbase virtually explodes with…
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Paul Tomkins

The Proof That Jürgen Klopp Improves So Many Players
Shinji Kagawa, Mario Gotze, Nuri Sahin. Three of Borussia Dortmund’s jewels under Jürgen Klopp, only to be sold by…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool FC Does Not Exist To Win Trophies
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 118 commentsI’ve been thinking about this controversial statement for a while now, and had drafted much of this piece before…
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Paul Tomkins

The First Defeat In Months Means Little Other Than Reds Went 18 Games Unbeaten
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 64 commentsFor the umpteenth time this season, Liverpool “won” 2-0 on xG (expected goals); although for the first time in…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool ARE A Selling Club. Here’s Why
The notion of a “selling club” is a bit of an odd one, given that pretty much all clubs…
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Paul Tomkins

More Proof That Liverpool Can Win The Major Trophies Under Klopp
Despite my usual well-researched logic and reasoning about why Liverpool will ultimately fall short of the title – that…
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Paul Tomkins

Who Needs Coutinho?! Firmino Channels His Inner Fowler, Reds Rip City’s Defence Apart
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 216 commentsCity were owed a beating, after the game at the Etihad, where the best team in the history of…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool FC, Fume and Propaganda, Via Texas, Ancient Greece and Rome
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 103 commentsAs noted last month, for the rest of this season all TTT articles will be behind the paywall, with…
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Paul Tomkins

The Most Important Piece I Will Write This Season: How Klopp Is Even Better Than People Realise
I delayed reading Raphael Honigstein’s book “Klopp: Bring The Noise” until after the busy festive period was out the…
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Paul Tomkins

Why Would Liverpool Sell Philippe Coutinho?
For starters, there are 142,000,000 obvious reasons, although if a player wants out badly enough, there has to be…
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Paul Tomkins

Could Van Dijk Be Worth A 20-Goal Swing?
It’s not unthinkable that Virgil van Dijk can help shave 10 goals a season off the Goals Against column…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool Could Have A Title-Winning Side Next Season
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 114 commentsI don’t think enough Liverpool fans appreciate just how good this Liverpool side (and squad) is. It has flaws,…
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Paul Tomkins

Rejoice! Liverpool Finally Get Van Dijk, The Ideal Signing
Two days late – if not several months late – Virgil Van Dijk is a Christmas present to us all…
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Paul Tomkins

Jose Mourinho’s Moaning About Money Is Laughable (FESTIVE FREEBIE)
I don’t like to talk too much about Manchester United, especially as this site relates to Liverpool FC, but…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool Demolish Swansea While Coasting In 2nd-Gear
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 47 commentsFor the longest time it was one of the quietest, flattest displays – and atmospheres – at Anfield; the…
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Paul Tomkins

Why Does Klopp Never Play The Strikers Who Have Now Scored 50 Goals?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 76 commentsBefore getting onto some thoughts after the 4-0 pummelling of Bournemouth – in which Liverpool continued this season’s rehabilitation…