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Paul Tomkins
What Can Liverpool Do To Overachieve?
By Paul Tomkins. Last week I wrote two articles about the challenges Liverpool face, and the apparent catch-22 of a…
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Paul Tomkins
We’re All Gonna Live Forever!
By Paul Tomkins. Last night’s piece, “We’re All Gonna Die!” provoked a lot of debate, much of which took place…
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Paul Tomkins
We’re All Gonna Die!
By Paul Tomkins. In order to let in some light, let’s first study the darkness. The one thing that’s undeniably…
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Paul Tomkins
What Wins League Titles? Here is the Answer
By Paul Tomkins. Note: this was originally a draft version of the Introduction for the follow-up to Pay As You…
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Paul Tomkins
The LFC Team That Would Have Won the Title
By Paul Tomkins. Last weekend’s charity game, while essentially meaningless in sporting terms, provided a fascinating glimpse into what might…
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Paul Tomkins
Great Players, Big Problems
By Paul Tomkins Having recently written that Liverpool’s future looks very bright, I feel it’s important to not overreact to…
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Better to be a Drogba than an Owen?
By Paul Tomkins and Robert Radburn. The following is something I wrote with my long-time collaborator Robert Radburn (we co-authored…
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Paul Tomkins
Can Liverpool Usurp Man City?
By Paul Tomkins Another away clean sheet, and another victory. The manager – a fraud, apparently – who couldn’t organise…
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Why Some Fans Will Never Like Rodgers
By Paul Tomkins Fans divided on a Liverpool manager? Deja Vu… In my youthful naïveté I used to imagine that…
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Paul Tomkins
Now You’re Gonna Believe Us?
By Paul Tomkins Okay, so Liverpool won’t win the league, and probably won’t finish in the top two. But they…
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Paul Tomkins
The Madness and Depression of Football Fans
By Paul Tomkins. This is an article that is nominally about football, but is just as much about the pressures…
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Paul Tomkins
The Flaw of Young Keepers and Old Strikers
By Paul Tomkins The plan for 2015 at TTT Towers was to produce a second Transfer Price Index book (with…
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Paul Tomkins
What Are Rodgers’ Achievements With Liverpool?
By Paul Tomkins About 18 months ago I was still arguing the point that Brendan Rodgers hadn’t proved himself a…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Best Young Players Ever?
By Paul Tomkins. Much was made of Spurs’ young side last night but Liverpool’s, even with Steven Gerrard in midfield,…
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Paul Tomkins
I’m Not Talking To You!
By Paul Tomkins. Someone totally unfamiliar comes up to you in the street. He knows you, but you have no…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool – A Better ‘Team’ Than Last Season
By Paul Tomkins. When Liverpool sold Luis Suarez and reinvested the money in players across several positions, I believed that…
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Paul Tomkins
Do Liverpool Need the Cups?
By Paul Tomkins. Given that the role of momentum in sport may be overplayed, it’s difficult to know whether cup…
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Paul Tomkins
How Do You Overcome the Transfer Odds?
By Paul Tomkins. Last week’s defence of FSG’s transfer policy garnered some great feedback, although, for those who only read…
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Paul Tomkins
In Defence of FSG’s Transfer Policy
By Paul Tomkins. This article on the This Is Anfield website was brought to my attention (by, amongst other people,…
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Paul Tomkins
As the Dust Settles on ‘Stevie G’
By Paul Tomkins. How the hell did Liverpool let a player who will be 35 in May leave on a…
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Paul Tomkins
Au Revoir Gerrard
By Paul Tomkins. At the end of this season Steven Gerrard will turn 35. He is without doubt a living…
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Paul Tomkins
A Year of Bad Signings?
By Paul Tomkins. The thing I hate most about people saying that a club ‘wasted’ £Xm on players is that…
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Paul Tomkins
Eyewitness Testimony: Can We Trust What We See?
By Paul Tomkins Weirdly, when some Liverpool fans look at Mamadou Sakho they see Djimi Traore. As a pair of…
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Paul Tomkins
2014: A Year of Two Halves
By Paul Tomkins. Last Christmas Liverpool gave us real heart; this year, to save us from cheer, they’ve definitely not…
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Paul Tomkins
Sterling and Origi Cannot Score Goals?
By Paul Tomkins. Raheem Sterling cannot score goals. He’s not a natural finisher, people tell me. Well, is this true?…