The Spurs boss has repeatedly spoken highly about Everton's fanbase and did so again after becoming the first away manager to win a competitive game at Hill Dickinson Stadium
Thomas Frank had more praise for Everton supporters after leading his Tottenham Hotspur side to a 3-0 win at Hill Dickinson Stadium.
The Spurs boss has repeatedly spoken highly of the Blues fanbase, whose passion he witnessed at full throttle when his Brentford team visited Goodison Park at the end of the 2021/22 season. His side arrived in L4 amid one of the first of the vociferous coach welcomes that inspired the team to safety under Frank Lampard - though not before losing 3-2 to the Bees that afternoon.
Those scenes stuck with him and inspired a section of his programme notes when Everton travelled to the Gtech Community Stadium at the beginning of the following season. On Sunday night, on his first visit to the club’s new ground, he again went out of his way to offer up praise - highlighting the “very good home crowd”.
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The atmosphere built to a crescendo at Hill Dickinson for the start of the match as Everton sought to extend their unbeaten start to life on the Liverpool waterfront. With referee Craig Pawson overseeing a series of contentious decisions, the excitement turned into fury as two goals from Micky Van de Ven and a Pape Matar Sarr header meant it was the away end that left in celebration.
After the match, Frank said: “I am very happy with that. I think it was overall a very solid performance. I'm especially pleased with the first half, where I think we were good in phase one, good in phase two. We had more passes, controlled the game more in phases. In general, the second half was a little bit more of a dogfight at times, and going here to Everton, which is against a very good team that is well set up by David Moyes and [which has] a very good home crowd.