Tottenham Hotspur did it again on Wednesday night, losing yet another game they should have won, as the man who rejected them for Manchester City, Antoine Semenyo, sunk their hearts in the waning moments of the match to hand Bournemouth their first win in 11 games with a 3-2 victory at the expense of the away side Spurs.
The loss keeps Tottenham in the bottom half of the Premier League and is the latest poor performance for Spurs after a 1-1 draw with Sunderland and then a 0-0 draw before that as Thomas Frank embarrassed himself against former employers Brentford.
But what is even more humiliating for Frank than the goose egg draw with the low budget Brentford is the fact that Tottenham are markedly worse off in the Premier League table than Brentford since Frank made the switch. Worse than that, Brentford are better than they were in the table now this season than they were last season under Frank.
Thomas Frank is embarrassing himself
Brentford are an incredible fifth in the Premier League table, just one point behind one of the most expensive squads in the league in Liverpool, the defending champions of England. The Bees are fresh off a 3-0 blowout victory over Sunderland, you know, the same team that Frank could not beat just days ago.
So Brentford are nine place higher than Tottenham in the Premier League table, as Spurs are 14th and just literally lost to the 15th placed team in Bournemouth. Brentford are blowing Spurs out of the water right now, and that needs to be a fact that lights a fire under Frank.
The problem is that there is nothing fiery about Frank. He seems all too happy to be losing week in and week out, mustering no sort of a counter to every single dreadful performance in which his club drops points.
Tottenham have to be fed up with what they are seeing every week from Frank, and it is remarkable that he is not under more pressure from above, given how little improvement this team has shown. The tactics are cowardly, the accountability is lacking, there is no urgency, and the players come off as entitled every time they bicker with fans for rightfully booing their putrid displays.
But out of all these transgressions, none are more indicting than the fact that Brentford are both better off without Frank and better than a Tottenham with Frank.