1+ hour, 57+ min ago  (80+ words) Comparing Slot's First 2 League & European Seasons To Klopp's Final 2The Tomkins Times Note: to make the comparison fairer to J'rgen Klopp, I'm comparing his final two Champions League seasons, as it reflects worse on him to include the underwhelming Europa League…...

5+ day, 17+ min ago  (291+ words) While I think one of the great unhelpful things about this season was Mo Salah's shocking, calculated and unwarranted December outburst (as well as his ageing limbs and slowing reactions), I also think that he'll always be a Liverpool legend,…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (479+ words) One of most stupid things any analyst can say is "no excuses, as it instantly reveals a lack of intellect. So that's one sign to look out for in who to not trust your opinions to. Once that's mentioned, you've…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (506+ words) As well as the disruptive style of shitball adopted by so many league teams this season, that make the league super-tough in an attritional way, Liverpool's cohesion and continuity, with so many new players, is constantly being disrupted by new…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1945+ words) Surely knew, in 2024, there could never be another Klopp, right? If Klopp was like Shankly, then Shanks took over 40 years to replace. Except many of the managers who weren't that much like Shankly still brought amazing success; Bob Paisley, his…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (79+ words) My View (& Views) of Liverpool 1 Spurs 1 From The Lower Sir Kenny'The Tomkins Times My View (& Views) of Liverpool 1 Spurs 1 From The Lower Sir Kenny I made it to Anfield again for the first time since the hugely emotional opening game…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (134+ words) Someone asked why I still bother " if so many things depress me about the game, or skew against the Reds in terms of fairness. So with Daniel, I wrestle with the whole idea of whether it's worth carrying on, and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1903+ words) This piece, after a much better month, is about the utter lunacy of one bad result supposedly undoing all the progress. How the Reds haven't got back to Square One, but people feel like they have; and say that they…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1841+ words) What perturbed me after the defeat at Wolves was how the performance " if not scintillating, then utterly dominant on every conceivable metric " was lambasted, when it was virtually identical in all underlying numbers, as I will show, to a very…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (1893+ words) Cutting out some of my existing medications and dealing with the side effects of new ones has felt like I'd just quit glue-sniffing; or the Airplane! version of it. When my mum died a year ago today, Liverpool were close…...