‘Coward’ Thomas Frank ‘could get sacked’ after Tottenham surrender at Arsenal
Thomas Frank has been warned he’s now putting himself in danger of getting sacked by Tottenham after the performance his side put in against Arsenal.
Tottenham were thrashed 4-1 at the Emirates on Sunday after the Dane set up defensively with five at the back, only to go in 2-0 down at the break.
Spurs didn’t manage a shot against Arsenal in the first half, and while Frank changed tactics that have been branded “cowardly” at half time his side went 3-0 behind almost immediately after the restart.
Although Richarlison‘s stunning long-range strike caught out David Raya the afternoon was all the more miserable given Eberechi Eze netted a hat-trick after Tottenham failed to complete his signing in the summer.
Jamie O’Hara and Alan Brazil tip Frank sack
Discussing the lack of tactics or ambition from Tottenham on talkSPORT the morning after the game ex-Spurs midfielder Jamie O’Hara laid into what he felt was the worst ever North London derby performance, branding it variously “shocking”, “embarrassing”, and “disgusting” while saying he was “really disappointed with Thomas Frank”.
The former midfielder said: “The tactics were to go and draw the game. Cowardly I would say. Can we go toe to toe with Arsenal? Probably not right now, we can’t, but you know what, it’s a derby. Things happen, go after it, it’s like a cup final. Do you go to cup final trying not to get beat?”
Host Alan Brazil went on to warn Frank that he’s heading for the sack at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, saying: “We’ve had people coming on here saying ‘It’s [Daniel] Levy, it’s his fault’. He’s gone now, Daniel! He’s gone! You’ve got to forget about him and get on with it now with what you’ve got, and Thomas Frank has to change things quickly or he’s out, he’s in the dole queue.”
And O’Hara later agreed: “It’s like Thomas Frank’s lost belief that we can win a game of football by going after a team, because at the start of the season, Man City, alright we lost to PSG but it was a great performance, we were going after teams, we had energy, there was a bit of bite about us, a bit of steel in midfield. Now, we’ve completely gone away from that and we’re just sitting on the edge of our box and hoping we don’t get beat.
“You play a dangerous game. Thomas Frank, he could get sacked.”
PSG rematch could condemn Frank
In a rational world Frank would probably be given the grace of time to turn things around at Tottenham, just as he got time to build at Brentford, and the fact that Ange Postecoglou finished 17th last term with this side would be taken into account.
But Premier League football has long since proven itself as anything other than rational, and when you’ve just gone to the Emirates and been embarrassed it is difficult to remove the emotion from the equation.
Few would argue Spurs are better than the Gunners right now but the manner of the defeat left so little to cling to for the fanbase.
| Games | 19 |
| Wins | 8 |
| Draws | 5 |
| Losses | 6 |
| Goals Scores | 35 |
| Goals Conceded | 24 |
The limp 1-0 home defeat to Chelsea was worrying, but a hammering at Arsenal orchestrated by the (latest) one the got away in Eze is the stuff of nightmares.
Spurs pushing European champions PSG all the way in the Super Cup was a huge reason for optimism in Frank’s project back in the summer, but that seems such a long way away now.
Spurs travel to Paris on Wednesday to face Luis Enrique’s men again in the Champions League, and on recent evidence it could be a much-different story this time around, where a heavy defeat will prove how far things have regressed since August and might just spark the Lewis family into thinking they have a decision to make.
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