The title ‘Tomkins’ Law’ was recently assigned to my transfer theory by Dan Kennett, referring to my observation that only 40% of transfers succeed. (Naming a website after myself may seem vain enough ...

“Facts” can be slippery, but some things are clearly quantifiable. Countable penalties and VAR calls can indeed be called facts. The number of penalties a team gets is … the number of penalties it ...

This was first published on Substack, but I’ve gone back into this article on the old site and added these bullet points. It is written from the perspective of being read on Substack If you received ...

This is an article that is nominally about football, but is just as much about the pressures of modern life and the plight of men (in particular, but not exclusively). This is both a very personal ...

Younger LFC fans, those who’ve had to endure Man Utd’s 1999 treble being force-fed down their gullets like foie gras geese, may not appreciate just how close we came to achieving that same treble in ...

Our trilogy concludes with a look at Liverpool’s forwards (plus the flotsam and jetsam which make up the squad). Unless there has been a sudden surge of voting between me writing this and you reading ...

I was recently asked by someone, I’ll not say who, to give some time to thinking about KPI frameworks that could be used to support various player-centric decisions. For example: how much should a ...

When your boss describes a statistic you’ve quoted about the accuracy of referees as “nonsense” then the only way to settle it is by rolling the sleeves up and doing some old-fashioned research. To ...

Last month, a leading data analyst at one of the world’s most famous universities (and a long-time TTT subscriber) emailed me some findings he’d unearthed doing a deep dive via FBRef.com, relating to ...

I’ve been going to Liverpool games with Matt since we met in 1997, by which point I’d been going… "Liverpool do happen to be blessed with supporters whose statistical analysis provides a lucid ...

“An ingenious and intelligent look beneath the surface to reveal what the headlines too often don’t tell us. Fascinating.” "Liverpool do happen to be blessed with supporters whose statistical analysis ...

“An ingenious and intelligent look beneath the surface to reveal what the headlines too often don’t tell us. Fascinating.” "Liverpool do happen to be blessed with supporters whose statistical analysis ...