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Paul Tomkins
2012/13: A Season In Review
inBy Paul Tomkins. What follows is an article detailing my thoughts on the season, with a heavily edited-down version sent…
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Paul Tomkins
Striking It Rich: Decades of Flawless Forwards
inBy Paul Tomkins. In my latest article for the official LFC website I look back at decades of outstanding strikers…
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Paul Tomkins
The Season Starts Now
inBy Paul Tomkins. It was a moving, emotional affair before the kick off against Manchester United. The game itself evoked…
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Paul Tomkins
The Key Position?
.tv Preview, Subscribers Only / / 73 commentsinThe most important player in any football team? I grew up believing it was the centre-forward (the fact that I…
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Paul Tomkins
Who Said You Had To ‘Understand’?
.tv Preview, Subscribers Only / / 234 commentsinThere’s also an alternative where Torres stays on, improves, plays a blinder, but the team lose; what would it have…
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Paul Tomkins
Reds Back on Track, Steve Bruce Deflated
.tv Preview / / 126 commentsinIt’s not been a particularly enjoyable season – one I’ve found hard to deal with on a number of levels.…
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Paul Tomkins
Rock, Paper, Scissors
.tv Preview, Subscribers Only / / 34 commentsinEven now, people haven’t fully wised up to the change in English football in the last handful of years; if…
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Paul Tomkins
Tough and Rumble
.tv Preview, Subscribers Only / / 45 commentsinWell, if Liverpool didn’t know they were in a battle for 4th, they do now; indeed, too literally so this…
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Paul Tomkins
Cutting Edge
.tv Preview / / 57 commentsinIf you go to a club that is in the top four; that has an unbeaten home record (including victories…
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Paul Tomkins
Youthful Promise
.tv Preview / / 83 commentsinIf you ever want to see the perfect example of how media reporting of football has changed in the past…
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Paul Tomkins
Derby Day Delight
.tv Preview / / 122 commentsinOne thing really bothered me earlier in the season: accusations from some quarters that Liverpool lacked character. This didn’t tally…
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Paul Tomkins
Success Starts at the Back
.tv Preview / / 124 commentsinWhisper it quietly, but Liverpool could be six games into a very important run of form. An eight point deficit…
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Paul Tomkins
End to the ‘Perfect Storm’ in Sight?
.tv Preview / / 198 commentsinA few weeks back, Liverpool were eight points off 4th place. Now the gap is down to four. Lost in…
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Paul Tomkins
Despatches From A Decade
.tv Preview / / 26 commentsinThis is an unedited version of the piece www.liverpoolfc.tv commissioned on the past decade.
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Paul Tomkins
A New Beginning?
.tv Preview / / 44 commentsinI loathe the kind of ‘punditry’ that says, just six months on from a 2nd-placed finish, that Liverpool have never…
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Paul Tomkins
Gritty Before Pretty
.tv Preview, Premium / / 101 commentsinIt wasn’t the prettiest of displays, but it was up there with the grittiest.
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Paul Tomkins
Respect A European Master
.tv Preview, Free / / 57 commentsinOnly four men in the history of European football have more victories in the European Cup/Champions League than Rafa Benítez.…
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Paul Tomkins
Strange Days Indeed
.tv Preview, Premium / / 67 commentsinThe 13 players City used cost £162.5m; the 14 Liverpool used cost £71.4m. That’s well below half of the visitor’s…
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Paul Tomkins
Evolution of Liverpool’s Strongest XI
.tv Preview / / 61 commentsinDespite all the problems this season, the biggest ray of hope remains the chance to see a fully fit strongest…
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Paul Tomkins
Criticism Is Easy
.tv Preview, Premium / / 89 commentsinIncredibly, signing Fernando Torres is now being redefined as a ‘no brainer’, whereas at the time many doubts were voiced…
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Paul Tomkins
Class is Permanent, Form Is Temporary
inLest some ex-stars forget, one of the oldest Liverpool FC adages is that ‘form is temporary, class is permanent’.
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Paul Tomkins
Time For Understanding
.tv Preview / / 157 commentsinWell, I can’t think of many more bizarre and depressing conclusions to a game than that. The Fulham fixture was…
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Paul Tomkins
Reds Resurgent, Red Devils Defeated
.tv Preview / / 89 commentsinUsually after a game, I can write about the issues surrounding what took place as soon as it’s finished, or…
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Paul Tomkins
Win Together, Lose Together (Uncut)
.tv Preview, Premium / / 56 commentsinEarlier in the week I’d promised to take my son to see the new Disney Pixar film, ‘Up’, on Saturday…
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Paul Tomkins
The Burden of Proof
.tv Preview, Premium / / 13 commentsinHere is something every critic of Rafa Benítez should consider. The Spaniard has won 57.38% of his 305 games as…