{"id":169653,"date":"2025-12-01T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169653\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:26:09","slug":"thomas-frank-says-tottenham-are-nothing-without-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169653\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank says Tottenham are ‘nothing without fans’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manager Thomas Frank says Tottenham Hotspur’s players and supporters “need each other” and that the club is “nothing without the fans”.<\/p>\n

Fans at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium booed goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario after his mistake led to Fulham’s second goal<\/a> in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat – Spurs’ 10th home league loss of 2025.<\/p>\n

The Dane said<\/a> after the defeat that those who booed Vicario “can’t be true Tottenham fans” and called their actions “completely unacceptable”.<\/p>\n

Tottenham’s only Premier League home win under Frank, who joined from Brentford in the summer, was the opening-weekend fixture against Burnley.<\/p>\n

Their poor home form has led to Tottenham having just 18 points from 13 games to sit 12th in the league table.<\/p>\n

Speaking before his side face Newcastle United, who sit directly below them, on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) at St James’ Park, Frank said he understood the disappointment of fans.<\/p>\n

“As I said after the game I completely understand the frustration,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If you don’t win there will always be a frustration. That is normal.<\/p>\n

“Especially as we haven’t won as much as we would have wanted to at home, not only this year but the last long period. So the frustration grows a little bit more. <\/p>\n

“We are nothing without the fans. No club is anything without the fans. Tottenham is nothing without our fantastic fans, nothing. We need each other.<\/p>\n

“My point is that during matches is where we need each other – where I want to create a fortress.<\/p>\n

“If you want to create a fortress, it can only be together – fans, team, me. My job is to make sure we do everything we can to perform – but can we do that together? That is where you create a difficult place to play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Thomas Frank says Tottenham Hotspur’s players and supporters “need each other” and that the club is “nothing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-169653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}