{"id":321976,"date":"2025-12-02T04:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:16:08","slug":"thomas-frank-clarifies-true-tottenham-fans-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321976\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank clarifies ‘true Tottenham fans’ comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Frank said Spurs supporters cannot mock their own players as he sought to clarify the “true Tottenham<\/a> fans” comment he made after the Fulham<\/a> defeat.<\/p>\n

Spurs’ roller coaster year went from bad to worse on Saturday when two goals conceded in a shambolic opening six minutes of a 2-1 home loss<\/a> to Fulham resulted in supporters turning on Frank’s team.<\/p>\n

Frustration boiled over with goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario<\/a> booed for a terrible mistake before ironic cheers followed the next time the Italian successfully cleared the ball.<\/p>\n

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Speaking post-match on Saturday<\/a>, Frank said: “I didn’t like how the fans reacted to that. They booed at him straight after and also three or four times when he was on the ball. For me that is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

“They can’t be true Tottenham fans. Booing after [the game], fair. No problem, but when we are playing, we need to be together.”<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of Tuesday’s clash at Newcastle, Tottenham boss Frank said: “When I said the ‘not true Spurs fan.’ what I meant by that, just to make it clear, was the mocking of one of their own players. [Vicario] makes a mistake and there is a little bit of booing after that, as I remember it.<\/p>\n

“The next ball he clears and there is like a cheering. You can’t do that. The opponent can do that. You can’t do that as a fan. That’s where I would stand by what I said.<\/p>\n

“The booing during the game I don’t think is helpful, [but] we are all different.”<\/p>\n

An inquest has followed after Spurs’ fourth home loss in the Premier League<\/a> this season, and it emerged that the relationship with the fans was discussed after a 1-0 home defeat to Chelsea<\/a> at the start of November.<\/p>\n

A tepid attacking display that contained only three shots in that London derby sparked fury during and after the match.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t have a meeting about the fans, we had a debrief after the game about the game, as we do all the time, and it was pretty evident after that game that it was the first time there was a little bit talk about the fans and the relationship,” Frank said.<\/p>\n

“It is important that we connect with the fans. It is pretty obvious that away from home we go to the away fans and thank them for their travelling and support.<\/p>\n

“There were maybe not many [players] who clapped after the [Fulham] game, but I still saw a few.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes they can be emotional or whatever, but I would still say ‘clap the fans after the game.’ [but] you don’t have to do the big loop. There is no specific instruction, that is [just] what I recommend.”<\/p>\n

Asked if he was confident majority shareholders ENIC would give him time, Frank said: “Yeah, I’m very confident.<\/p>\n

“It seems like they’re good guys, intelligent people, know how to run businesses and learning about football.<\/p>\n

“I think when we’re dealing with intelligent people they can see every successful dynasty and every successful club has taken time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank said Spurs supporters cannot mock their own players as he sought to clarify the “true Tottenham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-321976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}