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Paul Tomkins
Is Stewart Downing Actually Stanley Devastating?
in Free / / 322 commentsA certain player happens to have completed more successful crosses in the past three seasons than anyone else in the…
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Paul Tomkins
LFC’s Transfer Policy Explained (Hopefully)
There seems to be a general unease – and in some cases outright panic – about what Liverpool are doing…
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Paul Tomkins
Holy Comolli, Statman! Liverpool’s Data Revolution
Some people in football get tarred with a dirty big brush early on, and struggle to rid themselves of the…
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Paul Tomkins
Why I Fear For Jordan Henderson
Jordan Henderson has yet to kick a football for Liverpool – even in training – and many are already writing…
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Dan Kennett
Fair Play For Fenway?
in Editor's Pick, Featured, Free, In-Depth Analysis, LFC Finances, Off Field Issues, Statistical Analysis / / 173 commentsBy Dan Kennett, with expert review and contributions from site members Graeme Riley, Zach Slaton, Taf McDonald, Daniel Geey and Paul Tomkins.…
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Paul Tomkins
Transfer Names Not Exciting You? Read On…
in Free, Transfer Debate / / 289 commentsWhile it’s understandable to want to be excited about Liverpool’s transfer activity, I started to wonder if our preconceptions had…
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Paul Tomkins
Giving Youth A Chance
My motivation for writing about Liverpool has always been to give credit where it’s due, rather than where the mass…
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Paul Tomkins
Magical Mystery Tour: Istanbul, 2005
in Book Extract, Free / / 45 commentsTo Celebrate 'Istanbul Day', this is an extract from "Golden Past, Red Future", the book I began writing in 2004,…
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Paul Tomkins
Current Squads and Age-Old Issues
in Free, In-Depth Analysis / / 124 commentsLike most Liverpool fans, my thoughts turned to next season some while ago. This will be the first summer of…
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Paul Tomkins
Dalglish and Clarke: The Formula is Complete
Even though I spent November and December 2010 pushing for Kenny Dalglish to be given the caretaker’s role – using…
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Paul Tomkins
Luis Suarez – The Hole Story
It was fitting that it should be at the former home of the erstwhile excellent Fulham manager (and subsequently awful…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Top of the ‘League’
in Free / / 34 commentsBy Paul Grech, with additional comments by Paul Tomkins For all of the positive feeling that has returned to the…
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Paul Tomkins
Kenny For Good?
Like most people, I expected Kenny Dalglish to give Liverpool a lift. While he wouldn’t have been my first choice…
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Paul Tomkins
Media Muppet of the Month, April 2011
in Free, Media Muppet of the Week / / 81 commentsThis old chestnut is revived thanks to David Anderson of the Daily Mirror, who wrote a peach of a piece…
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Paul Tomkins
Hodgson Was Not the Worst Modern LFC Manager
in Free / / 98 commentsThat’s right: Roy Hodgson was not the worst modern LFC manager. (No, this is not an April fools’ joke.) To…
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Paul Tomkins
The Unwritten Law of Managerial Suitability
“You don’t know what you’re doing” has to be the harshest phrase for a manager to hear from his club’s…
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Paul Tomkins
Carroll Needs Time and Patience
in Free / / 63 commentsFinally, some six weeks after signing, Andy Carroll squeezed his considerable frame into a Liverpool shirt and entered the action…
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Paul Tomkins
Envious of Arsenal
Humiliated in the manner of their League Cup final defeat, and given an awe-inspiring runaround in Barcelona, it seems that…
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Simon GF
Referee’s View, February 2011
in Free, Referee's View / / 68 commentsSimon Fear – pro-qualified referee and Tomkins Times member – takes an uncompromising and unbiased look at the officiating in…
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Kais
Liverpool vs Man Utd: In-Depth Tactical Analysis
in Free, Talking Tactics / / 104 commentsUsually the preserve of subscribers only, this week’s tactical analysis – from Kais – is free to read by all.…
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Chris Rowland
Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
Redevelop Anfield or build a new stadium? Let’s get one thing we can all agree on out of the way…
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Taf McDonald
Fans’ Committee: A Good Idea?
in Fan Initiatives, Free / / 118 commentsBy Taf McDonald (Invincible Bastion). As matters on the pitch improve, matters off the pitch returned to the spotlight recently…
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Dan Kennett
TPI: World Record Transfer Fees and LFC
By Dan Kennett. In the light of Liverpool’s recent involvement in the transfer market, as well as being involved in…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool, Twitter and Rage
One step forward, two steps back. That’s how the Wigan result was explained to me on Twitter. Four wins in…
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Paul Tomkins
Benítez, The Great Money Waster?
Just when I think I’ve got little new to say about Rafa Benítez and his work at Liverpool, his record…