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Thomas Frank and Ange Postecoglou: how two eras collided in Tottenham’s turbulent 2025–26 season
They never stood in opposing technical areas for a Premier League north-west London derby in this chapter—Ange Postecoglou had already left Tottenham Hotspur by the time Thomas Frank arrived from Brentford—but the two managers have still gone “head to head” in the only arenas that mattered late in the campaign: results tables, clean-sheet columns, punditry sofas, and the club’s bruised sense of identity. A goalless New Year’s Day return for Frank at the Gtech Community Stadium against Keith Andrews’s Brentford froze the narrative at 0-0; six weeks later Spurs sacked Frank amid a relegation scrap, and Postecoglou used a television appearance the same day to question whether the club ever matched its “To Dare Is To Do” motto with wage ambition and risk.
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