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Paul Tomkins

Time To Stay Sane – Liverpool Thrashed By Wicked Deflections
Well, all I can say is that it’s a good job I set up the TTT Sanity Squad this…
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Paul Tomkins

The Toxic Rot of the Unhappy Superstar And How It’s Not An Issue For Klopp’s Liverpool
The thing that many fans don’t seem to understand about superstars is the all-consuming vibe-drain that occurs when they…
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Paul Tomkins

Beyond Doubt – Liverpool Now Have Their Strongest Squad Ever
Going into the new season, it felt like Liverpool had a squad of peak-age senior players (plus the unmeltable…
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Paul Tomkins

Why Liverpool Will Definitely/Probably/Possibly Win The League Again
Before the first game, against Leeds, I sat down to write my season prediction, but with so much going…
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Paul Tomkins

This Season Is A Free Hit For LFC – Enjoy The Ride, Or There’s No Point
While no season can be written off as not mattering, it’s also true that all outstanding runs come to…
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Paul Tomkins

Asshole! … (Free Sample Chapter From New Book)
Asshole! AKA: You Can Only Have Good Training With Good Trainers Excerpt from my brand new book, Perched: Jürgen Klopp’s…
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Paul Tomkins

Six Years Of Penalty Nonsense – How Liverpool’s Penalties Now Vanish Into Thin Air
By Paul Tomkins These Numbers Stink! For a few years now I’ve been asking where Liverpool’s missing penalties are. The…
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Paul Tomkins

Introducing The Tomkins Times’ Free Fortnight
Having set up a paywall upon introducing this site in 2009 (in order to help me finally make a…
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Paul Tomkins

“Perched” – New Liverpool FC Book About the Reds Becoming Champions – OUT NOW!
This is just a quick note to announce the release and immediate availability of my new book, “Perched: Jürgen Klopp’s…
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Paul Tomkins

13 Ways Liverpool Can Get Even Better Next Season
I don’t normally write list articles, but as an exercise I thought I’d list some of the ways Liverpool…
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Paul Tomkins

Leadership, Teamwork and What Makes Klopp So Special (Chapter From New Book)
This is an extract from my new book, “Perched: Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool FC – Champions Of Everything”, which subscribers…
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Paul Tomkins

Preorder Our 2 New LFC Books – LIMITED EDITIONS – & Limited Time Only
First, a quick few words on the fact that the Reds won’t now pass City’s points record (but did…
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Paul Tomkins

New LFC 2019/20 Books – Subscribers Preorder Now!
This post was originally published in early March. Okay, as I’ve been mentioning for some while – whilst also…
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Paul Tomkins

Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet?
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 50 commentsAs of lockdown, Liverpool needed 0.67 points per game to win the title. The Everton draw reduced that to…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool’s Secret Weapons To Wrap Up The League Title
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 36 commentsThe three-month break in football – which is due to return from an unprecedented hiatus in the middle of…
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Paul Tomkins

The World of Football Transfers In Absolute Tatters, Clubs In Dire Straits
Note: no Mark Knopflers were mentioned or harmed during the writing of this article. Also, the first two-thirds of…
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Paul Tomkins

Sgt. Pepijn’s Jürgen Klopp Club Bond (New Book Excerpt)
What follows is a section of a chapter from my upcoming Liverpool FC book, which – Covid-19 pending –…
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Paul Tomkins

Who Needs Football When There’s Music? A Break From The Madness of Must-Win Weekly
In the past week or so, few people on this site found themselves talking about football, when before that’s…
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Paul Tomkins

When Steven Gerrard Fell Through The Spacetime Continuum and the World Went Bizarro
It was all going so well, and then Liverpool’s greatest ever player – certainly the one who was at…
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Paul Tomkins

Why Liverpool FC Furloughing Staff Makes Sense On Many Levels
Update: since this article was published the club have reversed its decision, which seemed inevitable after the public outcry.…
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Paul Tomkins

This Is Guaranteed To Be The Most Memorable Season In Football History
On the day Princess Diana died, Liverpool were due to play Newcastle. I remember this well, as I spent…
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Paul Tomkins

Serialising “Mentality Monsters” on TTT – My Book on Liverpool’s Rise From Lows of 2015 To 2019 European Champions
In the coming months, as more and more people go into various forms of isolation, I will be serialising…
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Paul Tomkins

TTT Action Plan For Covid-19 – New Book, More Content & Older Books Serialised
Okay, with people losing their jobs (and getting ill) all over the world, and no football occurring until May…
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Paul Tomkins

Covid-19 – A Selection of TTT Subscribers’ Wisdom
Being in two at-risk groups – immune compromised and asthmatic (and just a year outside the 50+ warning zone)…
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Paul Tomkins

Coronavirus to Derail Liverpool’s Title? Football As A Matter of Life and Death
Like a lot of jokes, there was some truth in what Bill Shankly said. “Some people think football is…