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Paul Tomkins
The Madness and Depression of Football Fans
By Paul Tomkins. This is an article that is nominally about football, but is just as much about the pressures…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Best Young Players Ever?
By Paul Tomkins. Much was made of Spurs’ young side last night but Liverpool’s, even with Steven Gerrard in midfield,…
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Chris Rowland
A Season to Remember – 1976/77
By Chris Rowland. Younger LFC fans, those who’ve had to endure Man Utd’s 1999 treble being force-fed down their gullets…
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Graeme Riley
What a Waste of Money!
in Editor's Pick, Featured, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 25 commentsBy Graeme Riley. TPI – reviewing squad waste It has long been established since the publication of Pay As You…
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Paul Tomkins
Do Liverpool Need the Cups?
By Paul Tomkins. Given that the role of momentum in sport may be overplayed, it’s difficult to know whether cup…
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Bob Pearce
Footballers, Hotel Rooms and Prostitutes
in Editor's Pick, Featured, Subscribers Only, Talking Point, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 43 commentsBy Bob Pearce. Footballers, Hotel Rooms and Prostitutes. They are inseparable. They are also inconsistent, intangible and perishable. Just like…
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Daniel Rhodes
“Sit Down Brendan, We Need to Talk”
in Editor's Pick, Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Part Subscriber, Statistical Analysis / / 85 commentsBy Daniel Rhodes. (Brendan Rodgers enters the room…) John Henry: “Sit down Brendan, we need to talk.” Taking inspiration from…
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Chris Rowland
A Different Kind of Business Model
By TTT Subscriber Si Steers. Over the past 20 years football has changed beyond recognition. The very identity of the…
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Paul Tomkins
How Do You Overcome the Transfer Odds?
By Paul Tomkins. Last week’s defence of FSG’s transfer policy garnered some great feedback, although, for those who only read…
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Daniel Rhodes
“Put Your Medals on the Table”
By Dave Cronin. Something I’ve been thinking about… “Put your medals on the table.” How many times have we heard…
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Paul Tomkins
A Year of Bad Signings?
By Paul Tomkins. The thing I hate most about people saying that a club ‘wasted’ £Xm on players is that…
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Paul Tomkins
Eyewitness Testimony: Can We Trust What We See?
By Paul Tomkins Weirdly, when some Liverpool fans look at Mamadou Sakho they see Djimi Traore. As a pair of…
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Paul Tomkins
Losing To Man United Is Great!
By Paul Tomkins. Is there anything better than losing to Manchester United? Like a walk in a bracing winter’s wind,…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Liverpool Never Win the League
By Paul Tomkins. One thing people always tell me is that Liverpool ‘won’t win the league with X manager’. Ten…
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Paul Tomkins
A Decade of Big-Club Transfer Spending
in By Paul Tomkins, Editor's Pick, Featured, Free, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 79 commentsBy Paul Tomkins. The lack of sophistication and in-depth thought in most transfer assessments drives me to distraction. As I’ve…
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Paul Tomkins
Balotelli the Escaped Goat
By Paul Tomkins. When the move for Mario Balotelli was mooted in the summer I wrote a piece saying the…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC, and the Faults in Our Stars
By Paul Tomkins. Last season, in winning 26 league games, Liverpool maximised their strengths, and exceeded the sum of their…
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Bob Pearce
Measuring Strength in Depth – Part 3.
By Bob Pearce. Jordan Henderson: ‘My first, my last, my everything’ In part 2 it was shown that all four formations that Rodgers…
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Paul Tomkins
Roy Hodgson, The Ex Who Won’t Go Away
By Paul Tomkins. After a bad breakup, you really don’t want to keep running into your ex. And following a…
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Si Steers
Reinvention: Time as Important as Money
By Si Steers. In the post-apocalyptic world of Luis Suarez leaving Liverpool, there was always going to be a period…
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Bob Pearce
Measuring Strength in Depth – Part 2.
By Bob Pearce. In part one I matched each player and each team role against a table of 30 physical,…
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Tony Mckenna (Macattack)
Black Swans, Purple Patches and Blueprints (Part 1)
By Tony McKenna (TTT Subscriber Macattack). This summer it allowed ITKs (In The Knows) to correctly predict 50,000 of the…
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Bob Pearce
Measuring Strength in Depth – Part 1
By Bob Pearce. I have previously talked about the idea of an elements model. This had 30 elements grouped into…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Wake Up, Smell Some Coffee
By Paul Tomkins. Five years ago Liverpool FC, having finished 2nd, started the following season with two early defeats, including…
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Bob Pearce
Interview with LFC’s Head of Opposition Analysis
By Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. When the team sheet is announced an hour before kick-off we can’t stop ourselves…