Thomas Frank made a myriad of unforgivable errors when he was Tottenham Hotspur manager, and part of the reason why Igor Tudor looked so terrible at the beginning of his tenure as interim manager was the fact that he inherited such a mess and a squad ingrained with bad habits from Frank.
The former Brentford coach regularly held back the team's brightest young stars, would not start the best players on the team, and set the team up in such a way that they were so negative and almost incapable of creating chances.
But for all of his actual tactical flaws, the worst thing Frank ever did as Tottenham manager was divide the locker room against the players. Instead of contructively criticizing the players, pushing for better, and using the fans to rally behind the players, he would openly criticize fans for booing and coddle the egos of some of Spurs underperforming players instead of lighting a fire under these young men to perform to the Tottenham Hotspur standard.
Igor Tudor actually respects Tottenham fans
Well already, Igor Tudor is undoing Thomas Frank's disunity. Ahead of the most crucial game of the season thus far against Nottingham Forest, Tudor decided to praise the fans and act as a unifying voice for this organization - something Frank never even attempted to do.
Here is what Tudor told reporters, as captured by Spurs Army, "Beautiful sense of the togetherness with the fans. I enjoyed the sensation of us doing well on the pitch and sharing it with the fans. We need to continue all together."
Now that is what a manager needs to say out loud in public for his fans and the players to hear. Instead of pitting people against each other, Tudor knows that the players need the fans and that everyone involved with Tottenham needs to be in it together in order for Spurs to survive this - arguably the worst crisis in their storied history.'
Maybe it's because Tudor just came from coaching Marseille and Juventus while Frank never had a big job, but Tudor clearly knows that the boos from Tottenham fans in the past were all about trying to get this team to play better; it was never personal at the players. And he knows that Tottenham fans are so good about being behind their players, using his platform as a manager at the press conference to rally the troops, with the fans being very much a part of the fight along with the players.