Spurs and Forest sack the boss - will it work?
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The Times
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Spurs won the sack race! They got rid of Thomas Frank 24 hours before Nottingham Forest said goodbye to Sean Dyche. Why did they go, was it the right call and who could be next?
In contrast England manager Thomas Tuchel has signed an extension to his contract, what has he done to earn it and why now?
On the pitch do the managerial change give West Ham a better chance of staying up?and the fight for fourth and fifth place.
Gregor Robertson joins Tony Cascarino, Tom Allnutt and Martin Samuel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:07.5 | On today's show, we'll be discussing all the fallout from a brutal 24 hours for Premier League managers. |
| 0:13.3 | Thomas Frank and Sean Deich were sacked by Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest respectively, |
| 0:17.4 | as both clubs slipped deeper into relegation troubles. |
| 0:21.1 | We'll be asking if they deserve more time, who might replace them and what comes next for both |
| 0:25.4 | clubs. Also on the show, we'll be discussing the Times exclusive story, which revealed that |
| 0:29.9 | Thomas Tuchel is set to extend his contract as England manager beyond the World Cup and through |
| 0:34.6 | to the Euros in 2008. Plus, we'll be running the rule over the race for Europe and the relegation battle after |
| 0:41.2 | a full slate of midweek fixtures. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm Gregor Robertson and joining me in the studio today, we have the chief correspondent for |
| 0:47.5 | the Times and Sunday Times Martin Samuel, the former Chelsea and Astonville Stryker and |
| 0:52.5 | Times columnist Tony Cascarino. And joining us down the line we have the Times London-based football reporter with a focus on spurs, Tom Allnut. Guys, good to have you. Greg? Not being a quiet week, is it? No, never quite a week, mate. Never quite a week. Crazy. Tom, we'll come to you first um dull sessions and board players frank was always |
| 1:13.3 | wrong fit for adrenaline club like spurs that's the kind of uh the subheading on your your piece in |
| 1:19.4 | the times today you'll be pleased for maybe that the booze are over after you know that was the |
| 1:26.1 | soundtrack to your season so far, isn't it? |
| 1:28.2 | What have you made this decision? Was it inevitable for you? |
| 1:31.5 | I think so, Gregor. You know, I think the club were desperate to give Thomas Frank as much time as possible. |
| 1:38.6 | They really wanted to sort of appear like serious, calm, measured owners. |
| 1:43.4 | That was, you know, everything we heard in the last |
| 1:45.9 | few months was that they wanted to back Thomas Frank and that they felt that the kind of the |
| 1:50.0 | early bumps in the road were kind of expected almost, you know, with the squad, the signings, |
| 1:55.9 | lack of leadership. And let's not forget all the upheaval at Spurs off the pitch, you know, |
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