{"id":291828,"date":"2026-02-11T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:40:08","slug":"frank-responds-to-sacked-in-the-morning-chants-reveals-three-excuses-for-dire-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291828\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank responds to &#8216;sacked in the morning&#8217; chants; reveals three excuses for dire form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur boss Thomas Frank has insisted that he will remain in charge of the Premier League giants after Tuesday\u2019s loss against Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tottenham-hotspur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spurs <\/a>are facing the increasingly real threat of relegation from the Premier League as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/premier-league\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they are 16th in the table and only five points clear of 18th-placed West Ham.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The north London outfit slumped to another defeat on Tuesday night, deservedly losing 2-1 against out-of-form Newcastle United. They are now winless in eight Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/thomas-frank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank <\/a>is incredibly fortunate to still be in a job, but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-sack-race-arteta-amorim-nuno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> he is currently the favourite to be the next Premier League manager sacked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking towards the end of the Newcastle match, Glenn Hoddle insisted Spurs \u201chave to understand\u201d that they are in a relegation battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to say what it is and they are in a relegation fight. The players have to understand that and the fans have to understand that,\u201d Hoddle said.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/worst-ever-spurs-manager-frank-sacked-chelsea-let-palmer-down-bournemouth-find-gem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Worst-ever Spurs manager Frank surely to be sacked, Chelsea let Palmer down, Bournemouth find gem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the reality and you have to scrap for every single point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Post-match, Frank valiantly insisted that he will \u201ckeep going\u201d as he is \u201cconvinced\u201d about his future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah. I am convinced I will be. I understand the question,\u201d Frank responded when asked whether he thinks he will keep his job after the loss to Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is easy to point on me but it is never only the head coach, ownership, players or staff. It is everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/next-tottenham-manager-thomas-frank-sacked\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who will be next Tottenham manager if (when) Thomas Frank is sacked? Poch? De Zerbi? Xavi?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cEveryone knows what position we are in and what we need to improve on. That is what we are working hard on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also think there is a lot of studies that show it is not the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I am focused on is fighting. We of course understand we are not in a good situation. But with everything in life, you need to stay calm and keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued:\u00a0\u201c1000 per cent [I expect to remain in charge]. I\u2019m also 1000 per cent sure I didn\u2019t expect us to be in the position we are in with 11-12 injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a few before me up here at Tottenham and many other clubs that have lost their head. I have to stay calm. We have to get through this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank also suggested that Tottenham\u2019s injuries, suspensions and \u201cpattern\u201d over two years is behind their ongoing woes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand the fans\u2019 frustration. It\u2019s a position they don\u2019t want to be in. We are working day and night to try and change,\u201d\u00a0Frank said on fan boos after \u2018sacked in the morning chants\u2019 from home supporters.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/2025-26-premier-league-prize-money-table-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League prize money table predicted as Spurs slide even further in latest humiliation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a position the club have been in the last two years. The pattern is the club are struggling to compete in Europe and the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of that is to eliminate injuries and suspensions which doesn\u2019t have. We face a Newcastle team that has struggled a little bit lately. But I think they were more on top first half and then we came back into it well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second goal is a bit symbolic of our season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur boss Thomas Frank has insisted that he will remain in charge of the Premier League giants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1100,61,60,43,1102,112,17378,3568,9418],"class_list":{"0":"post-291828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-home-page","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-thomas-frank","15":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","16":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291828","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=291828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}