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Paul Tomkins
Time For Liverpool’s Youth Revolution? & Secret Teenage Ninja Superstar
Something is bubbling under at Liverpool – or rather, several things are. While people are expecting big signings, for…
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Paul Tomkins
Transfers: Enjoy the Exciting Potential of New Signings, But Don’t Obsess About Them
One thing I have never wanted to do is make The Tomkins Times about transfer tittle-tattle. But it’s where…
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Paul Tomkins
Transfers, Dickheads, Superstars, Egos, Mbappé and Liverpool’s Wise Faith In Konaté
One of the few things I find myself having to repeatedly clarify on this site is the “no dickheads”…
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Paul Tomkins
How Long Can Salah, Mané, Firmino and Others Go On For?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 35 comments* As part of the evolution of football, sports science gets better, which suits older players, and helps them to…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Secret Stars For 2021/22 Are Ready and Waiting
As I’ve noted before, Liverpool will be adding £300m-worth of players this summer – simply by moving them from…
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Paul Tomkins
How the Autopsy of LFC’s Black Swans Became a Celebration of Overcoming the Odds
The “Black Swan”: that event so freakishly rare you rarely see them. As I’ve noted throughout the season, pretty…
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Paul Tomkins
Exploding Cars, Friendships, and Seeing Liverpool vs Palace in the Flesh
While this will not be the most heralded achievement of Jürgen Klopp’s career – it will not light up…
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Paul Tomkins
Thiago Turns Mercurial Displays Into Consistency – Has He Nailed the Premier League?
Having written about the joy of Alisson’s headed goal yesterday, I wanted to write something else, and focus on…
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Paul Tomkins
“Alisson!” One of the Best Ever Moments as a Liverpool Fan
While winning trophies and being in the Champions League can be painted as “everything”, sometimes the best things in…
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Paul Tomkins
So, Which One of You Made the Faustian Pact?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 82 commentsOkay, own up. Was it you? Just a few years ago, think of all the bargains we were making…
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Paul Tomkins
No Radical Rebuilding Required At Liverpool – An In-Depth Analysis
(Note: I wrote this squad analysis before the news of the European Super League broke, and shelved it as…
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Paul Tomkins
A Damning Indictment of English Referees Regarding Foreign Players
I have spent the past month working continually on a project to assess the fairness of referees, including various…
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Paul Tomkins
The Most Dangerous Penalty-Box Premier League Players (and Winning Penalties)
Ahead of the week-long officiating/refereeing/VARing/expected-penalties series (that will hopefully run next week), I thought I’d share part of the…
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Paul Tomkins
A Preliminary Peek at the Big TTT Premier League Officiating Study 2015-2021
It’s clear that, this season at least (especially up until the midway point, when things were crazy), Liverpool have…
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Paul Tomkins
Imperious Defending: Ranking All the Premier League’s Centre-Backs 2011-2021, & the True Greatness of Van Dijk
Covered in this article, which is a deep dive into a decade of data on “pure” defending: – The…
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Paul Tomkins
A Quick Guide To Liverpool’s “Crisis” – Wake Up To The Facts (UPDATED)
Update: this article was written before Liverpool lost 1-0 at home to Fulham, but many of the points still…
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Paul Tomkins
The Biggest Issue Facing Liverpool FC – An Alternative Free Friday
Due to several injuries to the centre-backs at TTT Towers (including our reserve centre-backs, who were de facto central…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s £300m Summer Arrivals Revealed!
In a secret deal, late last summer, Liverpool chose to sell Virgil van Dijk to Real Madrid, for a…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Don’t Lack Leaders Or Quality – They Have Plenty (At the Kirkby Rehab Gym)
Despite sitting down last night and writing thousands of words on the ongoing refereeing/VAR madness that seems to blight…
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Paul Tomkins
The Mother of All Black Swans In a Tailspin – TTT Subscribers & Writers Give the Real Reasons For Liverpool’s League Struggles
By Paul Tomkins, Chris Rowland, Daniel Rhodes, Andrew Beasley and various members of the TTT community Liverpool got back…
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Paul Tomkins
Unbelievable Results For Liverpool – But Store the Pain to Use As Fuel to Go Again
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams…
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Paul Tomkins
Like Roy Keane, Are You Too Simple To Understand Liverpool’s Situation?
In some ways Roy Keane is a complex character. A great player, and a fighter, he is unfortunately, but…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Dramatic Long Night Of The Centre-Backs
Two new centre-backs – Preston’s Ben Davies and young Turkish international Ozan Kabak – signed before last night’s deadline,…
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Paul Tomkins
A Long (But Not Exhaustive) List of Liverpool’s Winter Woes
So, what’s going wrong at Liverpool? I left the house this morning for the first time in a month,…
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Paul Tomkins
Title Race Not Even Half Run – And Injury-Hit Liverpool Still In With A Shout
Given the litany of setbacks, it remains remarkable that Liverpool are still in the title race – although it…