Picking Tottenham’s next manager after Frank sacked.
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Following the announcement of Tottenham Hotspur parting ways with manager Thomas Frank, in the latest Tifo football podcast we discuss why it went wrong, who should replace him in the interim as well as who the longer term appointee should be.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Jon Mackenzie, Kaya Kaynak & Colin Millar and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - A well-written intro
05:46 - A semi-sanctioned second intro
6:29 - Spur sack Thomas Frank
10:30 - Why now and not before?
18:00 - The problems a new coach would inherit
21:30 - A discordant Discord shout out
24:10 - Who should Spurs get as their next current manager?
25:07 - “Gambling on stepping up” contenders
29:20 - “Too early in their development?” contenders
35:18 - another excellent break
35:20 - too early for Robbie Keane?
40:30 - These fine managers are available
50:25 - The risky choice?
1:06:15 - The “no questions asked” category
1:09:04- The wildcards
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:11.5 | And today I'm delighted to be joined by John McKenzie. |
| 0:14.9 | Are you really delighted to be joined by me? |
| 0:16.7 | Not at all, but it is what it says in the script here. |
| 0:19.6 | Kaya Kynak. |
| 0:20.9 | You weren't delighted to Kynak. Hey. |
| 0:24.1 | You weren't delighted to see him, though. |
| 0:25.4 | What was that? |
| 0:28.1 | Skip me back in a while. |
| 0:33.9 | And also, apparently making his TIFO football podcast debut, which I can't, but it's unfathomal to me that is the case. |
| 0:35.8 | I have, maybe I've dreamed several episodes of this where you were on, Colin. It's senior editor for The Athletic Colin Miller. Hello, is you? Hello, how's it going? I'm not too bad. Long-time listener first time. Well, are we calling ourselves pundits? Analyst, what do we call yourself? Whatever you want. Contributor. Yeah, I think it's Contribute Let's turn it down I like to call you mouths You know Who's like |
| 0:57.3 | Which mouths are on I don't call yourself whatever you want. Contributor. Yeah, I think you contribute. Let's turn it down a bit. |
| 0:54.7 | I'd like to call you mouths, you know. |
| 0:57.0 | Who's on? |
| 0:57.4 | Which mouths are on today, Steve? And you said, Colin Miller. I go, great, great, he's got a good mouth, you know? A tall mouth. And it worked it fine today. You did a fantastic debut, wasn't it? Wasn't it? Good. It's a good debut, yeah. Very good. Now, here's the things that Colin turned his mouth to today. Tottenham, of course, have sacked Thomas Frank. Now, we did have a slightly different podcast planned for today. There was a man you're not in there. It was so much. It was a man he got in there. Oh, there was. Because Colin was at West Ham London Stadium yesterday. |
| 1:28.8 | That's what they call it, isn't it? |
| 1:29.5 | The West Ham London Stadium. |
| 1:31.1 | The London Stadium. |
| 1:33.0 | The London Stadium. |
| 1:33.0 | They were very keen on the London. |
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