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How Jordan Henderson Was Fab When Fab Was Missing
By Chris Rowland in Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / February 24, 2020 / 8 comments
Written by Mizgan Masani. When Fab – Fabinho of course – picked up a serious injury in Liverpool’s Champions…
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TTT Player of the Month for January 2020: Mohamed Salah
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / February 4, 2020 / 36 comments
The starting point when deciding which player to write about for this feature is the post-match polls on this…
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Alisson, Virgil and Joe – Europe’s Top Trio?
By Chris Rowland in Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / January 29, 2020 / 27 comments
By Mizgan Masani. Looking back at the past couple of months, during which Liverpool have played a lot of…
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TTT Player of the Month for December 2019: Jordan Henderson
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / January 7, 2020 / 55 comments
December is usually the busiest month on the football calendar in England, but Liverpool took it to extreme levels…
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TTT Player Of The Month for November 2019: Trent Alexander-Arnold
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / December 4, 2019 / 13 comments
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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis / November 20, 2019 / 13 comments
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?
By Paul Tomkins in By Paul Tomkins, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / November 19, 2019 / 25 comments
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
By Chris Rowland in Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / October 23, 2019 / 10 comments
Written 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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / October 17, 2019 / 13 comments
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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / September 25, 2019 / 26 comments
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?
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / September 4, 2019 / 32 comments
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?
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / August 14, 2019 / 22 comments
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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis / May 15, 2019 / 22 comments
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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / April 3, 2019 / 8 comments
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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / March 5, 2019 / 13 comments
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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / February 4, 2019 / 10 comments
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
By Chris Rowland in Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / January 15, 2019 / 19 comments
By 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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Statistical Analysis / January 7, 2019 / 28 comments
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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / November 28, 2018 / 14 comments
“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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / October 25, 2018 / 21 comments
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
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, Free, Player In Focus / September 26, 2018 / 25 comments
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 …
By Andrew Beasley in By Andrew Beasley, In-Depth Analysis, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / July 18, 2018 / 49 comments
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!
By Paul Tomkins in By Paul Tomkins, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate / July 13, 2018 / 74 comments
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
By Paul Tomkins in By Paul Tomkins, Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / July 2, 2018 / 17 comments
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
By Chris Rowland in Player In Focus, Subscribers Only / April 26, 2018 / 29 comments
By TTT Subscriber John Cheung. NOTE FROM PT: John submitted this piece hours before the Roma game, as a…
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