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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC Know Nothing About Transfers!
To normal people, Liverpool apparently completing their transfer business in June, well before preseason starts, is great football strategising;…
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Paul Tomkins
Núñez and Others: Liverpool Rebuild Gathers Literal Pace; Opponents Beware of New Powers
A couple of years ago I was wondering how Manchester City could rebuild with so many ageing players, but…
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Chris Rowland
Views of Paris – Eyewitness Accounts From Site Subscribers
in Free, Talking Point / / 40 commentsIntroduction by Chris Rowland: It’s not the match in Paris that’s been hogging the headlines, but the troubles our…
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Paul Tomkins
Kettled, Crushed, Tear-Gassed, Pepper-Sprayed and Dogs Snapping At Us – Simply For Queuing Politely
in Free, UEFA ARE FUCKING USELESS / / 231 commentsI’ve been going to Liverpool games with Matt since we met in 1997, by which point I’d been going…
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Paul Tomkins
The Cynic Never Fails, Never Cries, As He Never Loves, Never Tries
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 141 commentsYou may have heard the following maxims before. Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.…
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Paul Tomkins
The Secret Way For Liverpool To Defeat £1.5billion Real Madrid
That Real Madrid should be allowed to enter the final as plucky underdogs is a kind of obscenity, given…
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Paul Tomkins
Finest of Teams – Klopp’s Liverpool – Lose Title By Finest Of Margins
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 45 commentsClub Elo rankings going into the final Premier League game today: 1 Liverpool 2,043 2 Man City 2,023 With…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Secret Plan From The Summer of 2021 To End 2021/22 on Fire
Preseason preparations were going smoothly in the summer of 2021, unlike the Covid-chaos of a year earlier. Divock Origi…
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Paul Tomkins
A Doctor at Hillsborough, by Neil Dunkin
Although he lived in Glasgow and worked as a GP in Lanarkshire, Dr Phillips, 34, had been born and bred…
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Mizgan Masani
Are We Underestimating Mané’s Season?
There has been a mixed response to the way Sadio Mané has played his season for Liverpool so far.…
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Paul Tomkins
Quadruples Are For Whisky – My Day at the Watford Match
While I only get to a few matches per season these days, memories were stirred of being at Anfield…
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Paul Tomkins
Incredible Mo Salah Stats That Suggest Something Is Very, Very Wrong
Published March 6th 2022. Last month, a leading data analyst at one of the world’s most famous universities (and…
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Chris Rowland
From the Netherlands to Anfield – My Day at the Match, West Ham (H), March 5th 2022
in Free, My Day at the Match / / 27 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Joachim Springer. The build-up to this match actually started months ago for me, when our supporters…
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Paul Tomkins
Title Race Is Now Close Enough To Be Officially “Back On”
On Tuesday 28th December, Liverpool – playing really poorly – lost 1-0 at Leicester, and to me, the title…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool, Shocking Penalty and VAR Facts Don’t Fit Hysterical Media Narrative
“Facts” can be slippery, but some things are clearly quantifiable. Countable penalties and VAR calls can indeed be called…
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Paul Tomkins
Sly Statistical Contortions To Pretend City Aren’t Way Richer Than Liverpool
in By Paul Tomkins, Free, In-Depth Analysis, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 47 commentsSometimes you’ll read a sentence so bad that, even when trying to take it easy for a while after…
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Paul Tomkins
Absence of Gini Wijnaldum is a Red Herring – Various Factors Have Halted Reds’ Title Charge
Yesterday, in a reply on TTT to a subscriber suggesting that Liverpool would be in the title race had…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Liverpool’s Title Hopes Virtually Died In Our Arms Last Night
History suggests that the title is heading to Manchester City yet again; along with the underlying numbers and various…
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Paul Tomkins
Giant Mings Falls Face-First Into Salah, and Still Salah Is Criticised
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 23 commentsThe Narrative Around Salah and Penalties Is Insane Has an image ever captured a foul quite as clearly? Tyrone Mings…
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Paul Tomkins
Divock Origi! Divock Origi!
in Book Extract, By Paul Tomkins, Deep Dive, Free, LFC Finances, LFC History, Post Match Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Talking Tactics / / 114 comments(Originally published many, many times 😉 ) Deja vu! Divock Origi! Divock Origi! Divock Origi! Divock Origi! Divock Origi! Divock Origi! Divock Origi!…
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Paul Tomkins
Memory Lane: 1987 Liverpool, 2021 Liverpool, and A Life In Between
My life has changed a lot since the late 1980s; indeed, after a near-fatal asthma attack in 1990 –…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Now Absolutely Control xG – Best-Ever Figures
This is from The Tomkins (Mostly) Daily, the email newsletter I’m producing to share snippets of content from the site,…
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Daniel Rhodes
Free Friday, November 12th 2021: Magical History Tour, Mo’s Goals & Gerrard Taking Over at Aston Villa
in Free, Free Friday / / 1 commentsBest posts of the week, as chosen by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. 1 – Grover on the controversy…
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Paul Tomkins
Huge Change At Liverpool – But Michael Edwards Leaves His Hand-Picked Legacy With Julian Ward
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 34 commentsEdwards to leave in summer of 2022, his protege Julian Ward to replace him. Reasons for Edwards departure explained…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Continue To Show the Value of Not Signing New Players
In a recent Athletic article, I noticed the following statement relating to Spurs’ regression in recent years: “Not signing…
