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Why Liverpool Can Win The Big Prizes Under Klopp
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 63 commentsThe other day Daniel Rhodes published a superb piece on this site about how, in many key metrics, Liverpool…
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The Power of the Klopp Meets the Power of the Kop. Boom!
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 38 commentsA proper top manager. That’s what it looks like. Proper ideas, proper philosophy, proper charisma. City clearly have more…
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Almost Half Liverpool’s Outfield Players Would Get Into This Marvellous Man City Side
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 23 commentsThere’s a vogue for “hybrid” teams when two sides go head to head, and they are always flawed, ignoring…
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Refereeing Scandals – Penalties Go To Brits – Continue to Make Life Hard For Liverpool
And so it continues – Liverpool, one of the best attacking sides seen in England in the past 20…
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Why Liverpool Will Keep Salah & Firmino and Improve the XI This Summer
Or: Why Salah and Firmino Would Be Mad To Want To Leave Liverpool The fact that Liverpool really did not…
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Walk On Thru the Wind, Walk On Thru the Snow: At Anfield To See Reds Demolish Watford
For the last 15 years, due to chronic illness, I have tended to mostly only go to games in…
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Placing Refereeing Bias against Liverpool and Foreign Players on the Spot: Yet More Damning Evidence
Okay, before I get onto the new evidence, which I feel shows two areas of officiating bias that are…
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Big FREE Read: Are Refs Biased Against Foreign Players? A Look at How To Win a Penalty in the PL
Moaning about the refereeing decisions your team faces is never a good look, and about as convincing as admitting…
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You Can Keep Jose’s Long-Ball Bollocks, Homer Ref and Flukey Bullshit
Well, Man United fans – there’s your man, Jose Mourinho, beating Liverpool with long-ball football that made 1980s’ Wimbledon…
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Liverpool Are Twice As Good As Man United (Kinda)
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 43 commentsWhile one XI/squad costing twice as much as another won’t make them twice as good (economies of scale apply),…
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Salah, Van Dijk, Oxlade-Chamberlain & Robertson – Brand New Brilliance
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 45 commentsSalah May Be The Star, But Liverpool Have So Many Outstanding Performers The two youngest teams in the Premier…
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Be Warned: Liverpool Are Coming Up The Hill, Boys (and Girls)
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 105 commentsWe want to go back to 1964-1990, but 2000-2002 and 2004-2009 are the fairest benchmarks The league title has…
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Unity vs Philippe Coutinho – And Proof That Transfer Windows Cause Disruption?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 60 commentsWhen anyone – even in a nice way – tells me that I shouldn’t write about something, it often…
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Liverpool Are Clearly One of the Best Sides in Europe
The influx of money into the Premier League – the continued rise of the new TV deals, booming gate…
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Klopp Is Building a Team, Not Buying a Team
First of all, let’s be clear: all managers buy players. No team is ever eleven youth graduates, unless perhaps…
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Liverpool Try To Defend A Lead, Officials Smoke Crack, Sensational Salah
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 203 commentsHere’s a little fact. Teams awarded Premier League penalties at Anfield this season: Spurs 2. Everton 1. Liverpool 1.…
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The Tomkins Times Exists To Promote Mediocrity For Liverpool FC. Mediocrity Rules!
We’re not really doing free articles for the rest of this season, but as the fanbase virtually explodes with…
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The Proof That Jürgen Klopp Improves So Many Players
Shinji Kagawa, Mario Gotze, Nuri Sahin. Three of Borussia Dortmund’s jewels under Jürgen Klopp, only to be sold by…
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Liverpool FC Does Not Exist To Win Trophies
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 118 commentsI’ve been thinking about this controversial statement for a while now, and had drafted much of this piece before…
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The First Defeat In Months Means Little Other Than Reds Went 18 Games Unbeaten
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 64 commentsFor the umpteenth time this season, Liverpool “won” 2-0 on xG (expected goals); although for the first time in…
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Liverpool ARE A Selling Club. Here’s Why
The notion of a “selling club” is a bit of an odd one, given that pretty much all clubs…
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More Proof That Liverpool Can Win The Major Trophies Under Klopp
Despite my usual well-researched logic and reasoning about why Liverpool will ultimately fall short of the title – that…
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Who Needs Coutinho?! Firmino Channels His Inner Fowler, Reds Rip City’s Defence Apart
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 216 commentsCity were owed a beating, after the game at the Etihad, where the best team in the history of…
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Liverpool FC, Fume and Propaganda, Via Texas, Ancient Greece and Rome
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 103 commentsAs noted last month, for the rest of this season all TTT articles will be behind the paywall, with…
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The Most Important Piece I Will Write This Season: How Klopp Is Even Better Than People Realise
I delayed reading Raphael Honigstein’s book “Klopp: Bring The Noise” until after the busy festive period was out the…
