‘We are nothing without the fans’ – Frank calls for support during tough Spurs run | OneFootball

Thomas Frank has urged Tottenham fans to stick behind the team, after large sections were booing goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario during the game against Fulham.

Fulham beat Tottenham 2-1 on Saturday evening, with Vicario running out of his box to clear the ball, only for it to go straight to a Fulham player just outside the box. Harry Wilson then produced a wonderfully improvised finish into an empty goal as the Italian scrambled back to his penalty area for the Cottagers’ second goal of the match.

After that incident, whenever the Italian touched the ball, he was booed. Ahead of Spurs’ match against Newcastle on Tuesday night, Frank said: “I completely understand the frustration. If we don’t win there will always be a frustration. We have not won much at home this season and also last so the frustration can grow. It’s my job to do what we can to have calm.

“We are nothing without the fans. Tottenham Hotspur is nothing without the fans. My point was that during matches we need each other. Afterwards the booing can be fair. During, we need to make it a fortress and to do that we need to be together.”

Frank reacted to sections of the fanbase who booed his goalkeeper after the game, saying they were not true Spurs fans.

Asked if he regretted his statement, the Dane said: “I don’t know, and you can say, how do you define a true Spurs fan? I think all the fantastic fans we have believe they’re true Spurs fans. Some react in one way, some react in another, some are a little bit in between. No matter what, we need all of them.”

Spurs are in poor form and have failed to win their last four games, losing three of them. They have only won once in their last seven matches.

They have conceded 13 goals in their last four games, and Frank said they are conceding too many shots: “You can say the four goals we conceded against United and Fulham are some of the goals I’d like to avoid more. I think they had five and seven shots, the xG was very low. In the other two we conceded too many shots.”