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I’m Now Convinced: This Is Liverpool’s Best Team Since 1987/88
A message sent to the BBC during Liverpool’s 4-0 drubbing of a remodelled West Ham side read “Liverpool fans,…
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Liverpool’s Secret Weapons For A Title Charge – Bring It On!
For the first time in a decade, Liverpool feel like genuine title-challengers at the outset (in 2013/14 it was…
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How Klopp Elevates Players While Other Managers Diminish Them
AKA: Players Are Not Fixed Entities. They Change and Develop In Relation To Their Surroundings. At the moment it…
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2018 – Liverpool’s Best Year For Transfers … EVER? Can Reds Finally Lift Title?
It’s always wrong to think you have won the transfer window; remember Everton in 2017? But looking back, did…
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Liverpool’s Crazy Spending? The Reds’ New Elite Goalkeeper and the Challenges He and LFC Face
While he isn’t yet confirmed (and let’s hope his knees are in better shape than Nabil Fekir’s), it seems…
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Shaqiri? I’d Rather Have Shakira!
It’s an old joke, of course. Her breasts are small and humble so that you don’t confuse them with…
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Karius and Henderson, Choking and Bouncing
In February I wrote a guest piece for the fine folk at Redmen TV (a piece included in the latest…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
