For subscribers at the end of a tumultuous year, free eBook (ePub) downloads of my 2025 book on Liverpool winning the league, plus previous books on winning the Champions League (2019), the Premier League (2020).

And more…

These five books are available to download for free:

1. “Jackpot! How Liverpool’s Slot Machine Won the Premier League” (2025)

2. “London Skies” (A Novel, 2024)

3. “This Red Planet: How Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool FC Enthralled and Conquered The World” (2022)

4. “Perched: Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool FC – Champions Of Everything” (2020)

5. “Mentality Monsters: How Jürgen Klopp Took Liverpool FC From Also-Rans To Champions of Europe” (2019)

My 10-or-so books prior to 2019 are available upon request, albeit they’re so old I don’t know how well they hold up. (I hate re-reading my old work as I’d want to edit and rewrite it all.)

I’ve now been writing regularly online for over 25 years, and professionally for 21 years (and this website launched as a paywalled WordPress site in 2009), and have seen a lot of patterns in that time (and before, going back to my season-ticket days in the 1990s, either side of a stint as a semi-pro player); enough to know when to stick with a manager and when not to, for starters. I started writing my first Liverpool book in 2004.

‘Jackpot’ was written as last season unfolded, and released as soon as the title was won, so before the parade horrors and loss of Saint Diogo.

So much has happened since; but I’m confident that it remains a good insight into why Arne Slot was so successful with two outsider clubs in the Eredivisie, and how he reshaped the Liverpool team to win the title; and serves as a reminder to when I countered the concepts that was just the next Erik ten Hag, and that it was impossible to replace Jürgen Klopp and Slot would immediately fail. How quickly some forget.

The other Liverpool books highlight how Klopp, and FSG, took Liverpool to be the top-ranked side in the world while winning the major honours, something which Slot and the club did again last season.

But they help to remind how Klopp also had lengthy difficult periods, and big setbacks, and massive regressions (the first quarter of 2017-18, the second half of 2020-21, a lot of 2022-23); but they were all part of the ebb and flow of a football team, and how top managers have slumps – but get things back on track again, if given time, and when bedding-in new players.

I think I correctly diagnosed all the issues Klopp faced, and it’s clear why I stuck with him every step of the way; and how I always felt things would get better (which they did), just as I have felt with Slot – but did not, for instance, with Brendan Rodgers, who I just found confusing and hard to analyse; and where I wanted Roy Hodgson out within mere days of him arriving.

I may also have said Darwin Núñez will outscore Erling Haaland and be better than Pelé, but we all make big mistakes.

Hopefully Jackpot! is a handy reminder of what Slot offers, and that the football books provide plenty of analysis and insight that stands the test of time (and the novel provides perspectives on struggles and the power of the human spirit), and which I continue to draw on as TTT hopefully continues for some time yet…

This offer is for paying TTT Main Hub subscribers only.