To his extensive list of problems at Tottenham, Thomas Frank can add another. The manager is dealing with a ghost from the club’s more successful recent past. There were 49 minutes on the clock when the South Stand choir took up the song. “He’s magic, you know. Mauricio Poch-e-ttino.” The message was clear. They want their former idol back. They cannot persist any longer with Frank.
The only wonder here was that Newcastle, who had arrived on the back of three successive Premier League defeats and with numerous issues of their own, were not out of sight at the interval. If they were bright in the first half, Spurs were impossibly awful. Frank’s injury list numbered 10 players and he lost another one – Wilson Odobert – in the 34th minute. The captain, Cristian Romero, is suspended, of course. Nobody wants to hear excuses.
Written by David Hytner at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/feb/10/tottenham-newcastle-premier-league-match-report under the title “Ramsey winner for Newcastle adds to Frank woes to leave Spurs fearing the drop”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
