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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool Don’t Have Momentum. They Have Quality, Guts and Goals
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 106 commentsWe’ve been wary of the concept of momentum on this site for many years, with research suggesting that it’s…
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Paul Tomkins

Lurching In Football, and How the Pendulum Is Almost Impossible To Stop Swaying
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 32 commentsDriving my son home from a friend’s 18th birthday party in a midnight downpour on Saturday night, it struck…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool: 6/6, 15/15, 115 out of 132, Plus At Least 8 World-Class Players
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 48 commentsAs I get to within a couple of years of turning 50, the number of times in my life…
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Paul Tomkins

Why Liverpool in 2019 Were The Best-Ever European Champions
Why Liverpool in 2019 Were The Best-Ever European Champions Okay, so that’s a bold claim. But bear with me. With…
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Paul Tomkins

BREAKING NEWS: Roberto Firmino Arrested
Late last night Roberto Firmino was arriving back at his Merseyside home when, as the security lights blinked on,…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #1 – 2018/19
#1 – 2018/19 Season summary Andrew Beasley: The long and winding road, that leads to your door. When this…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool Overcome Thuggish Anti-Football – Because They Cannot Be Bullied
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 42 commentsThe odd thing about this record-breaking Liverpool team is just how little outsiders seem to understand it; and at…
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Paul Tomkins

Reds Start Season Perfectly To Become Record Breakers
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 29 commentsThree league games, three wins. But go back further, it’s 12 league wins on the bounce, to equal the…
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Paul Tomkins

Big Data Study: Referees Are Biased Against Foreign Players
In the seven Premier League seasons prior to 2019/20, there were over 600 penalties awarded, and at The Tomkins Times…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #3 – 2008/09
#3 – 2008/09 A note from Paul Tomkins: Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best, should really mean…
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Paul Tomkins

Maturing Liverpool Winning Trophies Just Like Old Times (Version 2!)
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 8 comments(Note: this is a re-post. Our server crashed earlier and the original version of this article, and the comments…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #4 – 2001/02
#4 – 2001/02 Season summary Andrew Beasley: After the glory of the treble season, it looked like Liverpool were…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool FC Entering the Twilight Zone
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 32 commentsAt one point in an admittedly strange first half Liverpool looked like putting eight past Norwich, and so there…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #5 – 2005/06
#5 – 2005/06 A note from Paul Tomkins: Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best, should really…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #6 – 2017/18
in By Andrew Beasley, By Paul Tomkins, Chris Rowland, Free, LFC History, Subscribers Only / / 7 comments#6 – 2017/18 A note from Paul Tomkins: Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best, should really…
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Paul Tomkins

Liverpool FC, Made Better By Time, Coaching & Klopp’s Unique Genius
At an average of more than one per year across a nine-year period, between 2009 and 2018 Liverpool sold…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #7 – 2006/07
#7 – 2006/07 Season summary Andrew Beasley: Cup football is strange, isn’t it? Liverpool went out of both domestic…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #8 – 2013/14
#8 – 2013/14 Season summary Andrew Beasley: If we were to decide this countdown purely on excitement and enjoyment…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #9 – 2007/08
#9 – 2007/08 Season summary Andrew Beasley: In Rafa Benitez’s first three years in charge, Liverpool had got to…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #10 – 1997/98
#10 – 1997/98 Season summary Andrew Beasley: Liverpool were the fourth best team in the division in the first…
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Paul Tomkins

“Liverpool Don’t Look Ready” – Preseason Anxieties Justified?
Well, let’s be clear: it’s hard to look ready when your players only finished their competitive club season in…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #11 – 2004/05
#11 – 2004/05 Season summary Andrew Beasley: The debate in the comments section for this article is going to…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #12 – 2016/17
#12 – 2016/17 Season summary Andrew Beasley: The first full season of Jürgen Klopp’s tenure was undoubtedly a success…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #13 – 1995/96
#13 – 1995/96 Season summary Andrew Beasley: When all is said and done, there are just two words which…
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Andrew Beasley

Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #14 – 1994/95
#14 – 1994/95 Season summary Chris Rowland: It was Roy Evans’ first full season in charge, after taking over…