Thomas Frank talks sense but Tottenham’s lack of style has supporters worried

Thomas Frank attempts to get his point across to Spurs’ players at the City Ground but his side still slumped to a 3-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest. Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty Images

There are plenty of well-known checkpoints in the life cycle of a Tottenham manager and we have reached one with Thomas Frank. It is the pleading for time bit. “If nobody gets this, nobody will be able to turn this around,” he said after last Sunday’s 3-0 Premier League defeat at Nottingham Forest. It is not a “quick fix,” he added. And nobody was about to disagree.

Frank is veering towards another – the one where it is as if he wants to scream, to release the inner hurricane that he referenced in Nottingham. Is anybody seeing what he is seeing? In other words, the immense difficulties that he faces.