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Paul Tomkins
Brutal British Bastardry: Tough Times for Arsenal, Liverpool and Others
The travails of Arsene Wenger seem very familiar to me; indeed, in many ways they resemble what happened at Liverpool seven…
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Krishaldo
FSG’s Ownership Of Liverpool FC – A Timeline (Part 1)
in Free, LFC History / / 24 commentsBy Krishen Bhautoo (TTT Subscriber Krishaldo). Since the close of the January transfer window, there has been a swell in…
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Paul Tomkins
“Liverpool Have a Mid-Table Squad”
Okay, so I disappeared down a Twitter rabbit hole – or maybe wormhole (or even arsehole?) – of Liverpool having…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp Has Been Found Out. Sell All The Players. End the Season. Pack Up the Moon and Dismantle the Sun.
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 102 commentsWell, Liverpool’s form stinks. It reeks like rotten eggs left in the sun in the back of a Cadillac parked…
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Si Steers
LFC: The Sum of Our Parts
By TTT Subscriber Si Steers. When at our best Liverpool are one of the most fluent, attacking teams in Europe. Jürgen…
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Paul Tomkins
A Detailed and Frank Assessment of Liverpool’s Squad (PART ONE)
Well, everyone is pretty pissed off right now, and with that all rationality goes out of the window. Talk of…
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Paul Tomkins
Emergency Football Mental Health First-Aid Kit: Break Glass!
If you’re reading this then I am probably mentally dead. Liverpool have lost a game of football, and this is…
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Chris Rowland
“Easier to Embrace a Comfortable Lie Than an Uncomfortable Truth”
By TTT Subscribers Divilmint and Mark Cohen. Divilmint’s comment: Personally I find that analysis hugely flattering for Liverpool. If, in…
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Daniel Rhodes
How to Beat Mourinho’s Man Utd
By Daniel Rhodes. For the rest of the season The Tomkins Times is going to be providing a detailed report…
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Paul Tomkins
This is the Healthiest Liverpool Football Club Has Been In Decades
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 59 commentsReading Jonathan Northcroft’s Sunday Times’ piece on Jürgen Klopp and Pepijn Lijnders (the Q&A for which can be read here),…
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Paul Tomkins
Stop Going Insane Over Setbacks in a Great Season
Well, maybe that’s what you get if you play two games with just a day between them. Liverpool were yet…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp’s Wonderful Liverpool Are Wham!’s Last Christmas
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 58 commentsIf ever a record was destined to finish top of the UK charts it was Wham!’s Last Christmas. It had…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp, Mourinho, Conte and Guardiola – Who’s Doing the Best Job?
So, how does the job that Jürgen Klopp is doing compare with other new arrivals? (Also, for a great piece…
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Daniel Rhodes
‘Tis the Season for a Rampant Liverpool
in Free, Liverpool FC / / 23 commentsFrom TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen Note: this piece is now entirely free. Now hear this: Let’s be honest here, Liverpool…
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Paul Tomkins
Adam Lallana and a Giant Plate of Humble & Mince Pies
Not many teams can go away from home at a team that has barely conceded a goal in its own…
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Paul Tomkins
John Achterberg is a Witch! Burn Him! (And Burn Karius Too)
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 33 commentsEver since Joe Corrigan was blamed for the ills of David James and others two decades ago I’ve considered the…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC and the Art of Surviving a Car Crash
Fortunately – and here I’m touching wood (now now, missus) – I’ve never been in a serious car accident, although…
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Paul Tomkins
Clusterf*cking Hell
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 168 commentsIt’s hard to make sense of a game where your team were literally a millimetre away from going 4-1 up…
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Chris Rowland
Comment of the Month: November 2016
in Comment of the Month, Free / / 9 commentsSelected by Chris Rowland, Daniel Rhodes and Paul Tomkins. Here’s our monthly competition to find and reward the best comment…
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Paul Tomkins
One of Those Days Becomes One of Those Wins
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 63 commentsIt was a first half in which almost everything went wrong, including the stretchering off of Philippe Coutinho; on a…
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Paul Tomkins
Back in the Groove – Undisrupted Months Ahead for Klopp’s Reds
I don’t know precisely how much the international break affected other teams, but clearly it didn’t help Liverpool in their…
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Paul Tomkins
Stats Geeks, Bent Coppers and Proper Football Men
AKA ‘Good Old-Fashioned Policing’ Needed Science Too A lot has been spoken about football analytics in the past year, ever…
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Ed Ames
The Chink in the Armour: Defending Set Pieces
in Free, Talking Tactics / / 24 commentsBy Ed Ames. Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool are on the up. In nearly all aspects of play, they have clearly improved…
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Chris Rowland
Comment of the Month: October 2016
in Comment of the Month, Free / / 15 commentsSelected by Chris Rowland, Daniel Rhodes and Paul Tomkins. Here’s our monthly competition to find and reward the best comment…
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Paul Tomkins
Flashbacks To Vietnam and Bad LSD, Via Selhurst Park
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 75 commentsThe first half of Liverpool’s latest stirring victory was like a bad acid trip I took after returning from Vietnam…