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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Fight to Overcome Big Brutish Bastards: Including The Case For Milner, Can and Lovren
By Paul Tomkins, with additional research by Daniel Rhodes and Andrew Beasley. Interactive graphics by Robert Radburn. When he’s struggling…
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Daniel Rhodes
Scouting: Analysing Arsenal’s Weaknesses
By Daniel Rhodes Since being asked to write reports on the top six in the league using Wyscout and all…
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Andrew Beasley
The Stats That Help to Win Matches
By Andrew Beasley (TTT Subscriber ‘Beez’). This article will refer to my expected goals system (the full explanation of which…
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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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Daniel Rhodes
Escaping From the Kryptonite-Infested Bus Depot
in In-Depth Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 64 commentsBy Daniel Rhodes. We all know the scenario: Henderson picks up the ball – just inside his own half –…
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Paul Tomkins
Winless Runs and Flightless Liverbirds – 60 Years of Recovering From Bad Form
Since 1959 there have been no fewer than 124 occasions when Liverpool have gone three or more league games without…
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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 TWO)
Yesterday I posted my assessment of the first half-dozen members of the Liverpool squad, but only after a couple 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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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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Andrew Beasley
Beez’s Monthly Stats Column: ExPect it to be Tight at the Top
By Andrew Beasley (TTT Subscriber Beez). This article will refer to my expected goals system (the full explanation of which…
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Andrew Beasley
Beez’s Stats Round-Up: November 2016
By Andrew Beasley (TTT Subscriber Beez). In my previous two columns I mainly focused upon expected goals and stat benchmarks,…
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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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Andrew Beasley
Andrew Beasley’s Stats Round-Up: September* 2016
*plus the first weekend of October; these may not always fall perfectly within months! By Andrew Beasley (TTT Subscriber Beez).…
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Tim James
Positional Rotations and Movement Patterns: A Case Study Against Hull
By Tim James. In my last column (Struggles and Strategies Against the Low Block), I mentioned how positional rotations were…
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Tim James
Struggles and Strategies Against the Low Block
By Tim James The archetypal English football team is that of a deep defensive line and continuous long balls to…
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Andrew Beasley
Andrew Beasley’s Stats Round-Up: August 2016
By Andrew Beasley (TTT Subscriber Beez). This article will refer to my expected goals system (the full explanation of which…
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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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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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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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Daniel Rhodes
How Was Their Season? No. 13: Philippe Coutinho
in End of Season Player Review, Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / / 18 commentsBy Matthew Robb (TTT Subscriber Rafaisthebosphorus). So we all know that this year, Lil’ Phil has been our best player.…
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Graeme Riley
Flukey Foxes, Lucky Leicester or Clinical City?
By TTT Subscriber Graeme Riley. Setting the scene (All figures quoted are in 2015-2016 TPI values) For those not familiar…
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Daniel Rhodes
How Was Their Season? No 5: Lucas Leiva
in Chris Rowland, End of Season Player Review, Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 29 commentsWe asked our ever-growing panel to assess the performances this season of players in the first team group. Using the sweepstake method…
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Mihail Vladimirov
Villarreal 1 Liverpool 0: In-Depth Tactical Analysis
By Mihail Vladimirov. Given the magnitude of the game and having enough time to rest after the latest league game…