David Bennett

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

5.3 - Tottenham have won possession in the final third, on average, 5.3 times per game under Roberto De Zerbi in the Premier League so far - the highest average for any team under a manager this season. Press.

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

Incorrect. The guy who won their only trophy for almost two decades, the guy who famously biffed with the fans because they wanted to lose a game to impact their rivals, the guy who wins trophies everywhere he goes — that guy “normalised losing”, I’m afraid.

[Ryan Reynolds @Reynolds_R]

Ange Postecoglou appreciation tweet. Spurs aren't in this position if he was still there.

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

Maybe people don’t believe him when he says he knew they were going to win. Maybe they do. But if you know the details of his history, the things he’s won, and the way his teams have won them, there is no maybe.

[Jack @thejacksvn]

I’ll reiterate that every single person who wanted Ange out is a complete idiot.

The grass isn’t always greener.

Maybe next time stick with the manager who ended a 17-year trophy drought.

The decision to sack him still disgusts me to this day.

[Nick Stoll @NickStoll]

Who could have seen it coming?

[David Lederman @djclederman]

@Superspurs131 Yup. Almost as if being a self-confident Australian who speaks his mind can’t be a good manager, whilst a defensive, softly spoken Dane has to be. It’s extraordinary. And also highlights the blatant prejudices of many who work in football.

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

Ange was responsible for everything. Frank is responsible for nothing. Sorry to keep going on etc etc but it's constantly mind-blowing for me, the difference in treatment.

[Matt Mays @matty_mays]

The atmosphere last night at Coopers was probably the best I’ve ever seen it. Both sets of fans were unreal and it genuinely felt like a game in Europe. This League still has life in it. #aleague

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

Gotta look at his training methods, game style and history. Or are we not doing that this time

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

Every single coach he worked with talks like this about him. Every single one.

[Antonis Pagonis @Pagonis98]

Genuinely think this guy speaks about Ange's Spurs reign more than anyone else in world football.

[Chris Sutton @chris_sutton73]

Spurs should never have sacked Postecoglou…

[Nick Stoll @NickStoll]

Clearly

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

Compare and contrast the treatment. It’s quite remarkable. The benefits of being from a proper football country, I guess.

[spurstactico @spurstactico]

Same people:
Ange - injuries don’t count
TF - Injuries count
Ange - good players
TF - shit players
Ange - naive
TF - tactical mastermind

I told you guys that people didn’t hate Ange because he was a bad coach, they had other reasons which had nothing to do with football

[SeanTHFC @sufferingspurs]

I’m exhausted with this false characterisation of the 17th place finish. Now being used by our current manager to ease pressure on himself. That same side finished 5th the previous season. We played with Archie Gray and Ben Davies at centre back for 3 months. We then clearly rested our better players for the last 3 months of the league season in order to focus on the Europa League, which turned out to be absolutely the right decision by the way.

Anyone with a good enough memory will know we were playing some fantastic football leading up to the injury crisis, with a few dodgy results thrown in there, and a couple of games we absolutely deserved to win that we didn’t.

This isn’t to defend Ange. He’s gone, that’s over. But Thomas Frank has had a fully fit defence nearly all season. He also has plenty of attacking options, even if we are missing some important players. But going forward we are absolutely void of any ideas. And we have been for some time. That’s on him.

To go to the Emirates and employ tactics that you would expect from a national league team playing in the FA cup against Arsenal is not only unacceptable, it’s a disgrace.

This is even more important because we’ve already seen the same performance served up at home to Chelsea only a few weeks ago. Incredibly, we managed to be even worse today.

The game plan was to sit back, hope for free kicks and then allow our goalkeeper, who’s weakest attribute is his kicking, to hoof aimless balls in to the box in the hope that a player might get his head on it.

I have seen absolutely nothing so far from Frank to suggest he’s going to change his approach, and that’s why he needs to go now.

[Ryan Reynolds @Reynolds_R]

Tin foil hat brigade won't like this one bit

[Jacob @LongMacVampyr]

It's so good some of the Geelong boys are clearly online and know how to rile the weird losers who basically defame them

[Xander McGuire @XanderMcGuire7]

Ollie Dempsey and Sam De Koning arrive in an Aston Martin holding brown paper bags thanks to Cotton On…

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