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TTT Player Of The Month for November 2019: Trent Alexander-Arnold
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Trent Alexander-Arnold started five of Liverpool’s six matches in November, and was the…
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TTT Player Of The Month for October 2019: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Speaking after Liverpool’s excellent 3-1 win over Manchester City, Jürgen Klopp reflected on Fabinho’s wonder-strike which opened the scoring…
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Is Gini Wijnaldum the Most Complete Player In World Football?
Okay, for starters, such things are hard to quantify. For at least two years I’ve been calling Gini Wijnaldum…
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Joel Matip – The Free Transfer Who is Out-performing Many Around Europe
in Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / / 10 commentsWritten by Mizgan Masani. When Joel Matip arrived at Liverpool as a free agent from Schalke in the summer…
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‘Like Rocky!’ TTT Player Of The Month for September 2019: Adrián
You may disagree, but it didn’t feel like Liverpool had a truly stand-out player in September. The Reds played…
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Si Señor! TTT Player Of The Month for August 2019: Roberto Firmino
Last season, The Tomkins Times introduced a monthly player in focus feature. It was generally used to highlight the…
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Is Andy Robertson Destined to Become Liverpool’s Next Goal Machine?
When reading this article, visualise the words ‘small sample’ running through it like the name of a seaside town…
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Analysing Adrian – Is Liverpool’s New ‘Keeper Good Enough?
Any form of transfer news is big business in football media. You only have to look at Twitter for…
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Review of Alisson Becker’s First Season
Anfield recently witnessed arguably it’s greatest ever night, as Barcelona were torn to shreds. Liverpool became only the third…
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In Focus – TTT Player of the Month for March 2019: Mohamed Salah
Perhaps we should’ve expected this, even from him. As this column noted at the beginning of 2019, in December…
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The TTT Player of the Month for February 2019 is: Sadio Mané
When you get this far through the season, there’s always a danger a former recipient of the most sought…
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TTT Player of the Month for January 2019: Fabinho
January 2019 could conceivably called the strangest month of Fabinho’s career. Yet he navigated it superbly to take The…
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James Milner and the Art of No-Ego Leadership
in Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / / 19 commentsBy TTT Subscriber John Cheung. If James Milner hadn’t been a footballer, I’d wager he’d have been a damn…
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TTT Player of the Month for December 2018: Virgil van Dijk
The concept of a greatest ever month doesn’t really work in football. And even it did, you’d probably choose…
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Hail The Cube! TTT Player of the Month for November 2018: Xherdan Shaqiri
“When the chips are down you look at your big players, you want your big players to bring magic…
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TTT Player of the Month for October 2018: Joe Gomez
This probably seems like convenient timing. Paul Tomkins wrote an article following Liverpool’s recent 1-0 win at Huddersfield. It wasn’t…
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TTT Player of the Month for September 2018: James Milner
While dispatching half-decent sides like Southampton with minimum fuss undoubtedly has its merits, Anfield truly comes alive on European…
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Alisson: Is Our Aim True? The Stats Have Their Say …
It won’t be breaking news to you that Liverpool have lodged a £62m bid for Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker.…
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Shaqiri? I’d Rather Have Shakira!
It’s an old joke, of course. Her breasts are small and humble so that you don’t confuse them with…
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Naby Keita Can Unleash Torrent of Goals & More To Come From Salah
While we don’t yet quite know how Naby Keita will fit into Jürgen Klopp’s tactical system – or even…
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“The Wonderful Package” – What Oxlade-Chamberlain Was Giving Liverpool
in Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / / 29 commentsBy TTT Subscriber John Cheung. NOTE FROM PT: John submitted this piece hours before the Roma game, as a…
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Mo Salah: Woefully Wasteful or World Class Finisher?
Is it possible to be a world class finisher and woefully wasteful at the same time? It seems – on…
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Naby Keita: Thumping Thunderbastard, Red Mist & Relaxation
If you haven’t heard yet, had Naby Keita arrived at the end of August rather than next summer then we’d…
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The Pros and Cons of Selling Coutinho
Okay, some thoughts on Philippe Coutinho, in semi-list form, based on my reading of the situation, which comes with zero…
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How Was Their Season? No.13 – Daniel Sturridge
By TTT Subscriber Dan Kennett. It’s pretty difficult to assess any Daniel Sturridge season without starting with injuries. His first…
