Frank sacked by Spurs - where does this leave the relegation battle?
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It's a midweek Totally Extra and Jimbo is joined by Jay Harris, Carl Anka, Liam Twomey & JJ Bull to discuss the midweek fixtures.
David Ornstein broke the news this morning that Spurs have sacked Thomas Frank after 8 months in charge. It was no wins in 8 games in the league for Frank's injury-stricken side and the final straw was another home defeat at the hands of Newcastle, with the familiar boos ringing out at full time. Where did it go wrong for the Dane and who will replace him?
Relegation-battling Leeds came back from two goals down to draw 2-2 against their long time rivals Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Man Utd were also held by relegation scrapping West Ham to deny Carrick's side 5 wins in a row, with Benjamin Sesko rescuing a point late on.
Bournemouth made it 6 games unbeaten beating Everton 2-1 with their impressive new Brazilian winger Rayan scoring again.
Plus the latest from Leicester and why not everyone wants Hearts to win the Scottish Premiership.
Produced by Charlie Jones and Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Jay Harris joins to talk Frank sacking (2.50)
• PART 1b: Spurs 1-2 Newcastle (10.15)
• PART 2a: Roundup of the scores (15.40)
• PART 2b: Carl Anka joins to talk West Ham 1-1 Man Utd (16.20)
• PART 3a: Chelsea 2-2 Leeds (27.35)
• PART 3b: Everton 1-2 Bournemouth (36.40)
• PART 3c: The latest from Hearts and Leicester (40.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Totally football show. |
| 0:10.9 | Today, Premier League match day 26, |
| 0:13.6 | the one where Thomas the Frank engine reached the end of the line. |
| 0:17.1 | We'll be looking back on his terminal performance |
| 0:18.9 | and asking who's up next |
| 0:20.5 | and also checking on Tuesday's other games, |
| 0:23.0 | which saw a close shave for Man United, but crucially no haircut, |
| 0:26.5 | as they drew 1-1 with West Ham. |
| 0:28.8 | Chelsea leading with leads, but then farking it up with Farker, |
| 0:32.0 | and at the Hill Dickinson confusion as the cherries went on top of toffies, |
| 0:35.5 | but it wasn't on a Sunday. |
| 0:36.9 | All that coming up in this |
| 0:38.3 | Totally Football Show. |
| 0:43.3 | It's Wednesday the 11th of February. Welcome to a brand new Totally Football Show with us today. |
| 0:48.5 | JJ Bull. Hey, JJ. Hello. Also back with us, Liam Toomey. Hello, Liam. Pleasure to be back so seen. Excellent. |
| 0:55.5 | Fresh back from paternity leave and making his first appearance with us here in the studio since returning from Afgon, Jay Harris. |
| 1:03.3 | Yeah, I wish it was in slightly different circumstances this return, though. Right. Although the circumstances to which you refer are ones that have prompted, I think, |
| 1:12.7 | quite a bit of celebration in North London. I'm referring to Thomas Frank's departure from Tottenham |
| 1:18.8 | Hotspur. You're very busy morning for you. Yeah, a very busy morning. It's going to be a very |
| 1:23.3 | busy day, as you said. Thomas Frank's been sat this morning. They lost 2-1 to Newcast United last night. |
| 1:29.0 | It's been trending in this direction for a long time. I think when we look back at his time in |
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