The fallout from Tottenham Hotspur's latest entirely unacceptable loss has yet to truly conclude, and things figure to reach a boiling point soon as Thomas Frank continues to antagonize fans with poor results on the pitch and even more cowardly football that is simply not what Spurs supporters have come to expect from their teams.
Compounding matters is Frank's bizarre, passive aggressive attitude at press conferences that strike a level of obliviousness that is concerning and runs counter to the style of manager that usually succeeds at a bigger club like Tottenham - as opposed to, ahem, a mid table side that Frank is more accustomed to managing.
Following last weekend's humiliating 4-1 North London Derby vs. Arsenal, Frank was stunned again by a London rival. Spurs were down 2-0 within 10 minutes to Fulham at home and never looked like getting back into the game, creating a paltry 0.01 xG in the first half - an indictment of how woeful Frank's attacking tactics have been.
Thomas Frank is coming off clueless
During the game, the entire team, particularly Frank, were serenaded with boos, with goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario specifically targeted after yet another inexcusable individual error to effectively doom Spurs to a loss right as the game was getting under way.
Frank was well within his right to defend his veteran goalkeeper, but the way in which he did it will not go over well with Tottenham supporters at all. The manager said to the fans, via The Spurs Web, "That's not a true Spurs fan".
Now that will absolutely make Spurs fans blood boil. The people in the crowd haven't necessarily been the most supportive this season, true, but they are also working people who pay hard earned money to watch their team play and have understandably grown tired wtih a manager and group of players who make the same basic errors over and over again.
They booed Vicario out of frustration with a player who has made repeated mistakes and yet immediately yells at his own teammates as his first reaction. And they booed Vicario as part of a collective response and rebellion against a manager and team that has continually let them down to the point where a feeling of apathy feels almost inevitable at this point.
Who on earth is Frank, a new comer from Brentford with no real coaching pedigree to speak of, to say who is or isn't a true Tottenham fan? How can a failing manager be so oblivious as to adjudicate which paying members of the audience are valid or not? The more Frank opens his mouth, the more clueless he sounds at this point.