Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Thomas Frank. Picture: REUTERS
LONDON:
Supervisor Thomas Frank likens his time at Tottenham Hotspur to operating a gruelling marathon, saying he’s making an attempt to push by means of a “heavy mile” now that he hopes pays dividends in the long term.
After their scoreless draw at Brentford on Thursday, Spurs are twelfth within the standings with only one win of their final 4 league video games.
Throughout the stalemate, there have been chants of “Boring, boring Tottenham” from followers, and Frank was greeted with a refrain of boos when he went to applaud travelling supporters.
Requested if he was having fun with his time in control of Tottenham, Frank informed reporters on Friday: “When it’s essential to put in an enormous, large shift and it’s not clean and it’s robust, it’s in all probability tough to take pleasure in it.
“If I run exhausting I do not take pleasure in that second however I do know I must preserve my head down and run exhausting to get by means of it. We’re in a state of affairs the place it’s essential to run exhausting, to remain in it.
“After we look again on this spell or possibly this primary 12 months when it was robust, you may suppose: ‘What a studying, what an expertise, it made us so significantly better for the long run.’ So the brief reply is: no. The fact is you’ll be able to’t.”
The Danish supervisor mentioned he understood the frustrations of followers and believed success would change their perspective.
“Once I put myself out of it and look down, I believe: ‘What a privilege to be in control of this incredible membership in a interval the place it is a large transition’,” Frank mentioned.
“It is positively a marathon and it positively looks as if it is one of many extra heavy miles I am on now, however head down and preserve going.”
On Sunday, Spurs host seventh-placed Sunderland.
