1-0 loss on Saturday<\/a>, Frank encouraged his players to do a lap of appreciation around the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\nBut as fans booed the players off the pitch, cameras caught Van de Ven and Spence ignoring their manager and instead going straight down the tunnel.<\/p>\n
“Micky and Djed came into my office yesterday and just said they wanted to say sorry for the situation,” said Frank in a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n
“They didn’t want it to look bad or any misconception that you can get in this beautiful media world.<\/p>\n
“So there was no disrespect meant at all towards me or the team. They were just frustrated with the performance from us and the booing during the game.”<\/p>\n
Van de Ven and Spence’s behaviour has been criticised by some fans and pundits, while others suggested the incident has been blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n
Frank, 52, added he is pleased that his players came to him and prevented an escalation of the issue.<\/p>\n
“If they didn’t come in, of course I would have had to ask them about the situation they are working in. How they are feeling, why they are doing it? Because we all have a perception,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Whether it was because their mum wasn’t well or they didn’t like the head coach or they were irritated by the performance because they lost, or whatever.<\/p>\n
“Of course, I am happy that they were coming in because that means they care – I think that is very good. They care about the team, the club and, in this case, me. I am happy with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham boss Thomas Frank says Micky van de Ven and Djed Spence have apologised to him after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-259184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}