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Paul Tomkins
One of the Best Ever Crops of Reds’ Youngsters – But Can You Be Patient?
Can you hack it? Are you brave enough? Can you afford to wait for the maturation of an excellent crop…
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Paul Tomkins
Firm On Firmino: The Best In Europe?
When it comes to finishing, Roberto Firmino is not in the elite band of footballers in Europe. But in terms…
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Paul Tomkins
We’ve Seen The Future of English Football (Via Germany)
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 51 commentsI thought that, for once, the glaring cliché was true: that game had everything (including a glaring Clichy). Played at…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Fight to Overcome Big Brutish Bastards: Including The Case For Milner, Can and Lovren
By Paul Tomkins, with additional research by Daniel Rhodes and Andrew Beasley. Interactive graphics by Robert Radburn. When he’s struggling…
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Paul Tomkins
Beautiful Goals Shows How Good Liverpool Can Be
Since the chastening defeat at Leicester I’ve been trying to look into Liverpool’s weaknesses, and what Jürgen Klopp can address…
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Paul Tomkins
Clustermotherfucking ARGGHHH!
First of all, let’s take the gloves off as Liverpool continue to experience a crappy 2017. On a brief personal…
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Paul Tomkins
Brutal British Bastardry: Tough Times for Arsenal, Liverpool and Others
The travails of Arsene Wenger seem very familiar to me; indeed, in many ways they resemble what happened at Liverpool seven…
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Paul Tomkins
Winless Runs and Flightless Liverbirds – 60 Years of Recovering From Bad Form
Since 1959 there have been no fewer than 124 occasions when Liverpool have gone three or more league games without…
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Paul Tomkins
Form Is Temporary. Class Is … Improving
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 62 commentsThis season was always likely to be about building on what Jürgen Klopp inherited last season, and building something. This…
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Paul Tomkins
“Liverpool Have a Mid-Table Squad”
Okay, so I disappeared down a Twitter rabbit hole – or maybe wormhole (or even arsehole?) – of Liverpool having…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp Has Been Found Out. Sell All The Players. End the Season. Pack Up the Moon and Dismantle the Sun.
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 102 commentsWell, Liverpool’s form stinks. It reeks like rotten eggs left in the sun in the back of a Cadillac parked…
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Paul Tomkins
A Detailed and Frank Assessment of Liverpool’s Squad (PART TWO)
Yesterday I posted my assessment of the first half-dozen members of the Liverpool squad, but only after a couple of…
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Paul Tomkins
A Detailed and Frank Assessment of Liverpool’s Squad (PART ONE)
Well, everyone is pretty pissed off right now, and with that all rationality goes out of the window. Talk of…
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Paul Tomkins
Emergency Football Mental Health First-Aid Kit: Break Glass!
If you’re reading this then I am probably mentally dead. Liverpool have lost a game of football, and this is…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Draw at Man United: A Point Gained in the Long Run?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 91 commentsRegular readers may have noticed by now that I rarely predict the outcome of games. I see predicting the score…
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Paul Tomkins
This is the Healthiest Liverpool Football Club Has Been In Decades
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 59 commentsReading Jonathan Northcroft’s Sunday Times’ piece on Jürgen Klopp and Pepijn Lijnders (the Q&A for which can be read here),…
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Paul Tomkins
Stop Going Insane Over Setbacks in a Great Season
Well, maybe that’s what you get if you play two games with just a day between them. Liverpool were yet…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp’s Wonderful Liverpool Are Wham!’s Last Christmas
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 58 commentsIf ever a record was destined to finish top of the UK charts it was Wham!’s Last Christmas. It had…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp, Mourinho, Conte and Guardiola – Who’s Doing the Best Job?
So, how does the job that Jürgen Klopp is doing compare with other new arrivals? (Also, for a great piece…
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Paul Tomkins
Merry Christmas to TTT Subscribers (And All Other Readers)
in By Paul Tomkins, Site News / / 32 commentsFirst of all, season’s greetings to all (yes, even the Man United fans who secretly read us), and many, many…
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Paul Tomkins
Derby Doozie Downs Dirty Dross
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 96 commentsIn all the years watching the Merseyside derby it’s hard to think of two worse tackles than the one Ramiro…
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Paul Tomkins
Adam Lallana and a Giant Plate of Humble & Mince Pies
Not many teams can go away from home at a team that has barely conceded a goal in its own…
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Paul Tomkins
John Achterberg is a Witch! Burn Him! (And Burn Karius Too)
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 33 commentsEver since Joe Corrigan was blamed for the ills of David James and others two decades ago I’ve considered the…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC and the Art of Surviving a Car Crash
Fortunately – and here I’m touching wood (now now, missus) – I’ve never been in a serious car accident, although…
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Paul Tomkins
Special Festive Offer for TTT Subscribers (UPDATED)
It’s the time of the year where we give and we share, so with this in mind, I’ve devised a…