{"id":227557,"date":"2025-10-27T04:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227557\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:32:07","slug":"danny-murphy-column-the-thomas-frank-effect-but-is-there-more-to-come-from-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227557\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Murphy column: &#8216;The Thomas Frank effect&#8217; &#8211; but is there more to come from Spurs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I don&#8217;t believe Tottenham&#8217;s\u200b current identity is set in stone because we saw how Brentford evolved under him over a number of seasons and he is only just getting started here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When they first came into the Premier League, Brentford had a very direct style and were also quite obvious or predictable in what they did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you watched them last season, though, it was a totally different approach. They played out from the back through Christian Norgaard and although they could mix it up, they were not a one-trick pony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This Tottenham team is going to evolve too, but first and foremost Frank has given them a solid base like he had early on at Brentford. For example, with the way their full-backs stay at home a little bit more, rather than flying up the pitch like they did under Ange Postecoglou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We saw that on Sunday, where again Spurs got a bit of criticism for sitting back and inviting Everton on to them in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were times when I was thinking to myself, &#8216;come on, get out of your half because you are putting yourself under pressure&#8217;, but you have to consider what had gone before that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spurs had gone away from home in the Champions League on Wednesday and hung on for dear life for a draw against Monaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t believe Tottenham&#8217;s\u200b current identity is set in stone because we saw how Brentford evolved under him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-227557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}