Why did Frank fail at Spurs & could Poch fix them? | The Big Thing
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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The gang is here to talk about what went wrong for Tottenham under Thomas Frank, ranging from tactics to transfers to off-field chaos. What’s next for Spurs? And could Mauricio Pochettino fix them? All that — and more — on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Total Soccero! |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and The Big Thing. |
| 0:24.5 | It's the show where we go deep on one of the biggest new stories in The Beautiful Game. |
| 0:28.8 | On this episode, we're focusing on Tottenham, one of the biggest clubs in Europe, some might say, |
| 0:33.9 | with one of the best stadiums and an expectation to be in the upper echelons of the |
| 0:38.2 | Premier League. But things aren't going too well. Tottenham, of course, fired coach Thomas Frank |
| 0:43.3 | on Wednesday after just eight months in charge following Tottenham's two-one defeat at home to Newcastle on |
| 0:49.3 | Tuesday. As we recall right now, Spurs are 16th in the Premier League, just five points above the |
| 0:54.1 | relegation zone and winless in their past eight Premier League game. |
| 0:58.4 | We can ask what's gone wrong, how it happened, and how Tottenham get themselves out of this little old mess they're in. |
| 1:04.3 | My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today to have that discussion. |
| 1:07.1 | Hello, Taylor Rockwell. |
| 1:08.8 | Hello, Ryan Bailey. I am very excited and enthusiastic to be here, not necessarily because we're talking about a person losing their job, but because it's one of those episodes where I think because I liked Thomas Frank and thought Brentford were good coming in to his appointment to Spurs, I thought, oh, this makes sense and we'll see how it goes. |
| 1:25.8 | And now the narrative seems to be, well, this was never going to work. |
| 1:28.4 | And it was always a terrible appointment. And I'm excited to figure out who's wrong and why. I'd love to go back to the episodes after sort of that with the Super Cup when he came in. No, don't do that. That's going to reflect very badly on me. Because, Graham, I think you had some positive things to say. Yeah, no, let's not do that. |
| 1:44.6 | Actually, I think those were wiped. |
| 1:46.4 | Okay, we've lost those. |
| 1:47.6 | They've gone off the hard drive of the internet, unfortunately. Tom Frank is better than Big Ant. Oh, no, Graham. Oh, no. Yeah. Graham, how are you? We have lost one of the Premier League coaches you'd probably want to go for a beer with, right? |
| 2:04.4 | I think we would want to go for a beer with Thomas Frank. |
| 2:07.1 | I don't think Spurs fans would want to go for a beer with him. |
| 2:11.1 | I mean, I've read that he is their most unpopular manager in history, |
| 2:13.2 | so they saw him in a very different light. |
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