Tottenham supporters were left seething once more at Thomas Frank after their team scraped a draw against struggling Burnley, thanks to a late header from Cristian Romero. The away fans didn't hold back their anger towards Frank as he exited the pitch, with chants predicting his imminent dismissal echoing around the stadium.
Despite the hostility, Frank stood firm, expressing gratitude to the fans: "First and foremost I want to thank them (the fans) for travelling and supporting the team. I am sure they can recognise the willpower and character of the team to fight to the end. You can't say we didn't do everything to win. We just need to keep improving. The only way it can be is calm heads, carry on and keep doing what we think is the right thing. I think the message to the fans, as I said the whole time, is that we're working very hard on making sure everything is going in the right direction, and that we’ll keep doing that.
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"I'm sure they can recognise and acknowledge, especially the first half, and they proved we've done that. We could, should have been out of sight. But also they acknowledge the willpower and character of the team that keep running, keep fighting to the end. We just need to keep going."
Spurs initially took the lead through Micky van de Ven, but Axel Tuanzebe levelled the score just before the break, and Lyle Foster put Burnley in front in the second half. It was Romero's goal that salvaged a point for Spurs.
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Frank reflected on the match, saying: "It was a game we dominated and created chances. We should have scored a second one and then we are out of sight. We can never, ever, ever concede that goal just before half-time.
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"Then we concede another bad goal. We should never be that open. Then we had a strong end with strong character with a lot of offensive subs to get the equaliser. We had three or four very big chances and scored one of them.
"This is a game where we created a lot, and did more than enough to win the game. We just didn't defend well enough in two situations." The late equaliser from Romero proved a crushing setback for Burnley manager Scott Parker, whose side remain seven points adrift of safety.
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"Disappointed with conceding so late," Parker said. "It was a big improvement from us today and I thought our reaction was superb. "But we need to turn draws into wins. We have improved and we stood up and faced up today ... but got hit by a hammer blow."