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Chris Rowland
Football With VAR is a Different Sport – and Not the One You Love
inBy Mark Cohen. It would appear that ‘subjectivity’, the human element of officiating as it were, was the one…
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Chris Rowland
An End to 30 Years of Hurt…
inThis article is part of The Tomkins Times Free Fortnight, where for two weeks up until the start of the…
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Chris Rowland
It’s a Strange Love (or How I Need to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)
inWritten by TTT Subscriber Jonathan Naylor. “There is then, literally, nothing to describe it. I have exhausted all the…
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Chris Rowland
Is Jordan Henderson the Most Admirable Man Ever to Play For Liverpool?
inBy TTT Subscriber Anthony Stanley. “Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but I think we paid the right…
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Chris Rowland
… and The Dance Goes On
Free, Personal Thoughts / / 36 commentsinBy TTT Subscriber Anthony Stanley. Anthony Stanley is the author of “A Banquet Without Wine: A Quarter-Century of Liverpool…
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Bob Pearce
‘A Hoax Concealed Within a Puzzle Adrift in a Maze’
Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 12 commentsinWritten by Bob Pearce. Whenever I say something to you I will be working to get you to see…
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Graeme Riley
How Do We Restart? Weighting Our Way Through the Maze
inBy Graeme Riley. It’s been a while. I thought I’d pop back and visit an old friend in TTT,…
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Paul Tomkins
Who Needs Football When There’s Music? A Break From The Madness of Must-Win Weekly
inIn the past week or so, few people on this site found themselves talking about football, when before that’s…
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Bob Pearce
Pretty Confused, Huh?
Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 17 commentsinBy Bob Pearce. Introduction. I’ve been working on a large writing project for a few months now, looking at…
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Paul Tomkins
Covid-19 – A Selection of TTT Subscribers’ Wisdom
inBeing in two at-risk groups – immune compromised and asthmatic (and just a year outside the 50+ warning zone)…
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Chris Rowland
Catching Up On Lost Time: The Quest For Fan “Authenticity”
inBy Amy Gaeta. “We’ve waited 30 years for this.” How many times in the past few months have we…
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Paul Tomkins
Coronavirus to Derail Liverpool’s Title? Football As A Matter of Life and Death
inLike a lot of jokes, there was some truth in what Bill Shankly said. “Some people think football is…
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Daniel Rhodes
Our Action Heroes: Prepared, Confident and Considered
inWritten by Andrew Tangas (TTT Subscriber Andrew). “That’s your problem, you think you’re infallible! You think you can’t make a…
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Chris Rowland
Can We Drop Our Genius?
Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 14 commentsinBy TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. You may like to think that when we call someone a ‘Genius’ we are…
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Paul Tomkins
Saturday, 3pm: A Requiem (Joys and Sorrows)
inWhereas Saturday at 3pm used to be the most normal thing about football, now it’s almost a sign as…
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Chris Rowland
Specialism, Marginal Gains, the Ministry of Nudge and an Apology to Extinct Dinosaurs
inBy TTT Subscriber El Indio. In the full face of 90 minutes of action-packed match unfolding in front of…
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Chris Rowland
The Winner Doesn’t Take It All: Thoughts On Football, Feelings and Belief
Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 34 commentsinBy David Fitzgerald (TTT Subscriber Mädchenkliop). Do you ever wonder, are we all in denial? All the time? Sports…
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Chris Rowland
Destiny Calling …
Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 28 commentsinBy Harry Wicks (TTT Subscriber divilmint). I couldn’t sleep last night. Five nights to go and already I can’t…
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Chris Rowland
Playing a Different Sport
inBy TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen. Something occurred to me today that was at once so blindingly obvious and yet…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators, Part 11: ‘From Hero to Zero’
inBy our Mystery Correspondent Per Dantic. The commentators love saying ‘From Hero to Zero’. They do it to show how…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators, Part 10: ‘The Worst Possible Start’
Exclusive, Media Muppet of the Week, Media Watch, Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 2 commentsinBy our mystery correspondent Per Dantic. You’ll learn that one in your first week at commentators’ classes. The commentators say…
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Chris Rowland
Are We All in This Together?
inBy TTT Subscriber Joe Bloggs. I’ve got a genuine question here for all, as again, as while the result is…
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Anthony Stanley
The Shelter, The Zlatan Fan and a Moment to Remember Forever
Free, Personal Thoughts / / 17 commentsinThis doesn’t happen everyday. A homeless service, a place that can be chaotic or tranquil, that can be an end…
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Chris Rowland
The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 2 – “At This Level You Will Get Punished”
Media Muppet of the Week, Media Watch, Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 16 commentsinBy our mystery correspondent P. Dantic. That’s something commentators sometimes like to say isn’t it? ‘At this level you will…
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Chris Rowland
My Day at the Match – Crystal Palace (H) August 19th 2017
inBy TTT Subscriber REDM: It’s the first home match of the season and we leave the house at just after…