{"id":398695,"date":"2026-01-08T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398695\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:12:07","slug":"spurs-thomas-frank-didnt-notice-i-was-drinking-out-of-arsenal-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398695\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs’ Thomas Frank: Didn’t notice I was drinking out of Arsenal cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> boss Thomas Frank has said he didn’t notice he was drinking out of an Arsenal<\/a> cup ahead of the clash at Bournemouth, adding that it would have been “absolutely stupid” for him to do so.<\/p>\n

Frank was pictured drinking out of a coffee cup that had the logo of Spurs’ arch-rivals Arsenal emblazoned on it ahead of their game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The image was widely shared on social media, and when Frank was asked about it post-match he said: “It’s fair to say that not winning every single football match, it would be absolutely stupid of me to take a cup with Arsenal on it. Anyone thinking I’ve done that or the staff has done it …<\/p>\n

“They’ve been in the changing room the game before us [on Saturday]. It’s normal to say ‘give me a cup of espresso’ before every game.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a little bit sad in football that I need to be asked a question like that. We are definitely going in the wrong direction if we are worrying about me having a cup of another club. Of course I wouldn’t do that. That would be really stupid.”<\/p>\n

Thomas Frank drank out of an Arsenal cup ahead of Spurs’ clash at Bournemouth.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Arsenal were the last visitors at the Vitality Stadium, registering a 3-2 win on the weekend. Nevertheless, the image of Frank with an Arsenal cup was poor optics for a Spurs manager who is facing scrutiny for his side’s performances.<\/p>\n

Frank’s side’s 3-2 loss<\/a> at Bournemouth courtesy of a late Antoine Semenyo<\/a> strike means they’ve won just one of their last five Premier League<\/a> games and languish in 14th in the table.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s fair to say everyone involved in Tottenham, it’s a tough one to take today,” said Frank. “Hopefully everyone can see how hard we worked to get everything in the right direction.<\/p>\n

“Overall the performance was good, especially the second half, in a game where we deserved to get more.<\/p>\n

“That is extremely painful to be part of, so of course people are frustrated — that’s natural.<\/p>\n

“It’s very tough to sit here right now and we haven’t got anything out of overall a good performance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur boss Thomas Frank has said he didn’t notice he was drinking out of an Arsenal cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-398695","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\/398695","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=398695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}