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Paul Tomkins
Clusterf*cking Hell
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 168 commentsIt’s hard to make sense of a game where your team were literally a millimetre away from going 4-1 up…
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Paul Tomkins
One of Those Days Becomes One of Those Wins
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 63 commentsIt was a first half in which almost everything went wrong, including the stretchering off of Philippe Coutinho; on a…
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Paul Tomkins
Back in the Groove – Undisrupted Months Ahead for Klopp’s Reds
I don’t know precisely how much the international break affected other teams, but clearly it didn’t help Liverpool in their…
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Paul Tomkins
Stats Geeks, Bent Coppers and Proper Football Men
AKA ‘Good Old-Fashioned Policing’ Needed Science Too A lot has been spoken about football analytics in the past year, ever…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Are United, United Are Divided?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 121 commentsRight now the western world feels more divided than ever. The politics of division – of Brexit, of Trump, of…
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Paul Tomkins
Flashbacks To Vietnam and Bad LSD, Via Selhurst Park
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 75 commentsThe first half of Liverpool’s latest stirring victory was like a bad acid trip I took after returning from Vietnam…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Top-Notch Strength in Reserve: Klopp Has a Proper Squad
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 70 commentsLike it or not – and weirdly, some people don’t like it – but with Jürgen Klopp’s ‘preferred’ XI working…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Pass Another Tall Test – Klopp’s Reds Look Seriously Good
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 71 commentsMy first view across at the new Main Stand, sitting in my old season ticket seat in the Lower Centenary…
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Paul Tomkins
Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate!
PART ONE We hate Nottingham Forest. We hate Everton too. We hate Man United… (and Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Spurs, ……
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Paul Tomkins
Kloppocolypse Now! A Detailed Assessment of Klopp’s First Year
PART ONE The fact that so many people expected Jürgen Klopp to arrive with a bagful of miracles has possibly…
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Paul Tomkins
An Apology
I’d like to make an apology for my comments this weekend. On Saturday night I posted a comment in the…
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Paul Tomkins
Proof that Liverpool CAN Win the League
PART ONE Proof Positive While it’s still only seven league games (plus two cup games away from home), Liverpool –…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp’s Blitzkrieging, Gegenpressing, Steamrolling Reds Stroll On
PART ONE It’s early days, but with another thumping victory this already feels like a rather special Liverpool team, with…
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Paul Tomkins
New Ways to Subscribe to The Tomkins Times
As part of our revamp and relaunch in the summer of 2016 the aim was to make the subscription process…
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Paul Tomkins
Loving Lallana as Reds Run Chelsea Ragged
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 95 commentsWhile his touches were not vital in winning the game – those came from Dejan Lovren and Jordan Henderson, with…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp and Liverpool – Sowing the Seeds of Something Special?
During the summer I noted on this site that, excluding the first couple of months of following his arrival, almost…
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Paul Tomkins
Anchors and Wankers: the Psychology and Reality of Transfer Prices
While the price of a Premier League footballer does indeed get further and further away from the financial realities of…
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Paul Tomkins
Dread, Despair, and Must-Win Insanity
Before the Spurs match I found myself engulfed in a pall of dread. Like most fans I get nervous before…
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Paul Tomkins
This is an Intervention: Do We Have To Do This EVERY Time?
While I still love football, my joy as a supporter of Liverpool is diluted by the modern insanity of fans…
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Paul Tomkins
Stop Panicking! Deep Breaths…
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 166 commentsTwo games, both away from home: one superb win, one surprising – yet unsurprising – defeat. The “end of the…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Sublime Attacking Rips Arsenal To Shreds
At the end of last season I noted, in an article assessing the line-ups over the campaign, that when Jürgen…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Liverpool Will Win the League! (And Why They May Not)
Part One This summer vs Last Summer Every summer should bring optimism to a football fan – a clean slate,…
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Paul Tomkins
“It’s Alive!” Welcome to the New TTT
in By Paul Tomkins, Site News / / 238 commentsSo here we are, the new TTT, revamped and renewed; reborn and reclothed. It’s been a long two years to…
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Paul Tomkins
Welcome Wijnaldum, the New Stephen Ireland
By Paul Tomkins. Liverpool have signed a player in Georginio Wijnaldum who has an impeccable pedigree: prolific for Holland –…
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Paul Tomkins
Star-Shaped Pegs for Star-Shaped Holes
By Paul Tomkins. Last summer Liverpool signed Christian Benteke, a round peg signed for a round hole. A good player,…