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Four Views On Why Pre-Season Is Just Glorified Training
Chris Rowland: After comfortable wins at – ahem – Tranmere and Bradford – Liverpool have since lost 3-2 against…
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Fair Finance – the Case for Financial Fair Play
By David Fitzgerald (TTT Subscriber Madchenkliop). What is fair? Now anyone who knows me would not imagine I would…
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Missing the Title By the Width of an Aspirin?
11.7 mm. The tiny slice of the arc of a football that video technology said was not quite over…
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Tightness and Flexibility: Klopp’s Latex Approach to Squad-Building
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 27 commentsBy Sebastian Crankshaw (TTT Siubscriber hesbighesred): From Wiki – “Latex is a stable dispersion (emulsion) of polymer microparticles in an aqueous medium. It…
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Done Deal – The Business End of the Game
By TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. Daniel Geey, ‘One of the UK’s most highly respected sports lawyers’ (and long-time TTT…
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The Dark Knight, Beowulf v Grendel and Stretched Metaphors!
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 24 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Anthony Stanley. When trying to answer some perplexing questions in my own mind, I feverishly lashed…
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Build a Rocket Boys – Taking Liverpool FC to the Stars
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 11 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen. I have, like I’m sure many others, an intense interest in the 1960’s space…
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Every Pitch is a Stage, Every Match a Performance
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 43 commentsby David Fitzgerald (TTT Subscriber Madchenkliop). The pitch is a stage OR ethereal rhythms OR professionalism vs inspiration OR…
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What Does the Title Run-In Look Like?
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 34 commentsWe lost to Manchester City a few days ago and our title hopes are over. Done. Ended. Terminated. Or…
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There’s Blood in the Water – Time to Take a Bite?
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 41 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen: In the words of the great Matthew McConaughey: “Alright, alright, alright…” I think for…
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Kop That Humour!
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 42 commentsBy Various. Some time ago, Andrew Potter – TTT subscriber andklopp – suggested we put together an article on…
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The Reds Are Coming Up the Hill, Boys!
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 17 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen. Since this season began I have been extraordinarily encouraged by a number of factors,…
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Liverpool’s Best Start to a Season Ever!
By Terry Dolan (TTT Subscriber TerryD). Just how good are this Liverpool team? This is the best Liverpool team…
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Klopp: “I Had No Clue What I Was Talking About” – Looking Into a Manager’s Memory of Matches
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 27 commentsJürgen Klopp’s managerial career is now well into its second decade having spent seven years at Mainz, seven at…
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The Adventurous Cruyff-Turning Alisson: Brave or Foolish?
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 19 comments“It started with a backpass…” A perfect start to the season: three wins on the board, no goals conceded and…
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How Liverpool FC Are Making The Remarkable Feel Routine
By Jonathan Naylor (TTT Subscriber REDM). I had a strange sensation during the opening game of the season versus…
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Is Jürgen Klopp Football’s Greatest Großmeister?
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 45 comments“Liverpool’s comeback against AC Milan was inspired primarily by principles that are inherently chess-like. The Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez…
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Putting Liverpool’s Midfield Options Under the Microscope
By TTT Subscriber Will Gurpinar-Morgan. With a first-choice attack as good as any in the world and an increasingly…
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We Are Not So Smart: Football Arguments, Godwin’s Law & The Tomkins Times
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 36 comments“A celebration of self-delusion” That’s the subheading for David McRaney’s website, which came about after the release of his…
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How Accurate Are Referees? The PR v The Research
When your boss describes a statistic you’ve quoted about the accuracy of referees as “nonsense” then the only way…
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Effing Reffing Takes The Headlines Again
When referees keep getting more post-match discussion than goalscorers and goalkeepers, you know something’s wrong. Officials seem to be…
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Liverpool’s Place in UEFA’s “European Footballing Landscape”
in Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 27 commentsWhen UEFA publish a 126 page report about “benchmarking” the European Footballing Club Landscape, with a subheading of the “financial…
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Playing a Different Sport
By TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen. Something occurred to me today that was at once so blindingly obvious and yet…
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The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators, Part 9: ‘He is a Top Top Player’
By our mystery correspondent Per Dantic. ‘He is a top top player’ We often hear the commentators say ‘He is…
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Are We All in This Together?
By TTT Subscriber Joe Bloggs. I’ve got a genuine question here for all, as again, as while the result is…
