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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Pass Another Tall Test – Klopp’s Reds Look Seriously Good
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 71 commentsMy first view across at the new Main Stand, sitting in my old season ticket seat in the Lower Centenary…
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Paul Tomkins
Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate!
PART ONE We hate Nottingham Forest. We hate Everton too. We hate Man United… (and Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Spurs, ……
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Paul Tomkins
Kloppocolypse Now! A Detailed Assessment of Klopp’s First Year
PART ONE The fact that so many people expected Jürgen Klopp to arrive with a bagful of miracles has possibly…
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Paul Tomkins
An Apology
I’d like to make an apology for my comments this weekend. On Saturday night I posted a comment in the…
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Daniel Rhodes
Comment of the Month: September 2016
in Comment of the Month, Free / / 21 commentsSelected by Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. Here’s our monthly competition to find and reward the best comment from a…
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Paul Tomkins
Proof that Liverpool CAN Win the League
PART ONE Proof Positive While it’s still only seven league games (plus two cup games away from home), Liverpool –…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp’s Blitzkrieging, Gegenpressing, Steamrolling Reds Stroll On
PART ONE It’s early days, but with another thumping victory this already feels like a rather special Liverpool team, with…
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Daniel Rhodes
A Quick Chat with God
A Scouser Born and Bred No 6: Robbie Fowler By Daniel Rhodes. The year was 1993: the Grand National was…
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Paul Tomkins
New Ways to Subscribe to The Tomkins Times
As part of our revamp and relaunch in the summer of 2016 the aim was to make the subscription process…
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Paul Tomkins
Loving Lallana as Reds Run Chelsea Ragged
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 95 commentsWhile his touches were not vital in winning the game – those came from Dejan Lovren and Jordan Henderson, with…
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Daniel Rhodes
Painting the World Red
Written by Terry Dolan. The animated map shows how the world was painted red from Liverpool’s first season in 1892…
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Paul Tomkins
Klopp and Liverpool – Sowing the Seeds of Something Special?
During the summer I noted on this site that, excluding the first couple of months of following his arrival, almost…
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Krishaldo
Summer 2016/17: Transfer Window Spending Round-Up
in Free, Transfer Debate / / 41 commentsSo Jim White day has been and gone, and the flurry of activity we usually see on deadline day has…
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Daniel Rhodes
Comment of the Month – August 2016
in Comment of the Month, Free / / 15 commentsBy Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. Here’s our monthly competition to find and reward the best comment from a selected…
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Paul Tomkins
Anchors and Wankers: the Psychology and Reality of Transfer Prices
While the price of a Premier League footballer does indeed get further and further away from the financial realities of…
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Paul Tomkins
Dread, Despair, and Must-Win Insanity
Before the Spurs match I found myself engulfed in a pall of dread. Like most fans I get nervous before…
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Paul Tomkins
This is an Intervention: Do We Have To Do This EVERY Time?
While I still love football, my joy as a supporter of Liverpool is diluted by the modern insanity of fans…
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Paul Tomkins
Stop Panicking! Deep Breaths…
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 166 commentsTwo games, both away from home: one superb win, one surprising – yet unsurprising – defeat. The “end of the…
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Bob Pearce
You’ll Never Look at Football the Same Way Again
in Free, Talking Tactics / / 1 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. With each passing season we have seen the Premier League battlefield steadily evolve in its…
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Andrew Beasley
The Stats Benchmarks For This Season
By Andrew Beasley (TTT Subscriber Beez). Thanks to websites like whoscored.com, it’s common to see team or player statistics presented…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Liverpool Will Win the League! (And Why They May Not)
Part One This summer vs Last Summer Every summer should bring optimism to a football fan – a clean slate,…
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Krishaldo
STSOSTG – The Verdict (with TTT Player Values)
By Krishen Bhautoo. This is a short piece to round up the results of the excellently put together series of…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Did We Even Want Klopp in the First Place?
By Paul Tomkins. You’ll all remember precisely why Liverpool appointed Jürgen Klopp last October, upon firing Brendan Rodgers. But it’s…
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Andrew Beasley
Liverpool and Expected Goals
I’m sure by now you’re familiar with the concept of expected goals (or xG or ExpG for short). Each shot…
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Chris Rowland
Comment of the Month – The Article!
On June 6th, The Tomkins Times subscriber and contributor Tony Mckenna (macattack) produced this epic comment exploring the benefits of giving a manager enough…