Who follows Ange Postecoglou and are England going backwards?
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Seventeen days after ending Spurs’ seventeen year wait for a trophy Ange Postecoglou was out, sacked by Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy. Was it the right decision? Was leading Spurs to their lowest finish in over forty years a sackable offence? Or are the club constantly asking their managers to overachieve, given their wage bill in comparison to other top six teams?
Thomas Frank looks to be in line to replace Postecoglou, what will he bring?
After the break a look at a lack lustre England. Will a demanding Thomas Tuchel be able to achieve his plans with so little time with the players? And where does this England team’s greatest weakness lie?
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| 0:23.7 | Times change. The Times remains. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. |
| 0:39.5 | Ange Postalgoglue ended Tottenham Hotspur's 17-year wait for a trophy, but barely 17 days later, he was gone. |
| 0:46.3 | Despite lifting the Europa League trophy last month, the Australian head coach was sacked on Friday, |
| 0:51.0 | having ultimately paid the price for a 17th place Premier League finish, |
| 0:54.9 | the club's worst in the top flight since 1976-77. |
| 0:58.8 | A club statement said that whilst winning the Europa League this season ranks as one of the |
| 1:02.3 | club's greatest moments, we cannot base our decision on emotions aligned to this triumph. |
| 1:07.4 | So, did Ange deserve better? |
| 1:09.5 | Does Daniel Levy's decision reveal where the Tottenham |
| 1:11.7 | Chairman's priorities lie, or was Levy right to be unmoved by one glorious night in Bilbao? |
| 1:16.6 | We'll be debating all of that and discussing what the early favourite Brentford's Thomas Frank |
| 1:21.6 | would bring to North London. Also on the show, Andoranil England won, was Saturday snooze fest |
| 1:27.1 | England's worst ever win? |
| 1:29.5 | Thomas Tuchel scolded his players for their attitude, energy levels and lack of seriousness after England laboured to victory over a team of part-timers ranked 173 in the world. |
| 1:40.3 | Three games into the Tuchel era and a year out from the World Cup we'll be asking are England going backwards? |
| 1:46.0 | I'm Gregor Robertson and alongside me today are the former Chelsea and Aston Villa striker Tony Cascarino, |
| 1:51.6 | the sports data journalist of the year Hamza Khalik Lunat and the football reporter covering Tottenham and England |
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