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Let's not kill ourselves here. It's been a head spinning few days. Thomas Frank ousted, Igor Tudgeon inserted, a billion words written and spoken, and the North London Derby coming down the pike.

In today's show, we'll look at the Thomas Frank years, months, we'll examine the reaction including that,

Ange Poster Cogler interview, and the reaction to Tudor's arrival from experts, players, fans and much else besides. I'm Danny Kelly with me today from the Athletic James Moore and Jay Harris. Welcome to

both. Let's get straight stuck into this. Thomas Frank, how do we look back on his reign?

You can, you know, all kinds of matrices,

measurements are being used to show just how poor it was.

But how do we look back on it?

We'll get into what went wrong in a second.

I know the dust is still settling, Jay.

What do you make of the months that Thomas Benton Spurs?

I think in the beginning there was a little bit of promise,

especially with the UEFA Super Cup,

sort of that tactical approach for the PSG game.

But I think that that game ended up being sort of a microcosm

or sort of encapsulated Frank's reign,

where he was almost too focused on stopping the opposition

that he probably didn't spend enough time on coming up with a really good plan A

for when Spurs were expected to dominate the ball,

especially at home against teams maybe lower down in the Premidy table.

But I just quickly went through the list of 38 games

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