Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Chris Coles

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
391 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

And really, you can pinpoint Spurs' downfall to arguably the moment that Ange Postakoglu left because he left Spurs as Europa League winners, as we know.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

Now, they didn't finish particularly high in the Premier League last season, but it was thought that with the appointment of Thomas Frank, who at the time seemed a very shrewd appointment, the former Brentford manager, he would guide Spurs to calmer waters.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

And it just hasn't happened.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

They've lurched from one disaster to the next.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

Thomas Frank just didn't work.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

I think fans, by the end of his tenure...

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

were a bit frustrated by his negativity.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

They didn't like the fact that Spurs at home in particular weren't playing on the front foot.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

They weren't playing the kind of football that Ange had Spurs playing, which was this really entertaining front-footed attacking football.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

But then what happened next was just a disaster from a Spurs perspective with the managerial appointments that just weren't working.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

And most recently, Igor Chudis come in for four or five games

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

and had an appalling time at Tottenham and now they're in this position where they've got four or five games of the season to go and they've brought in Roberto de Zerbi who on the face of it is a very good appointment but he's got so little time to turn around this juggernaut of a football club who could be facing relegation which would be catastrophic for them financially and

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

Bear in mind, this is a team that were Europa League winners.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

They were Champions League finalists not so long ago.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

Perennial top five, top six challenges in the Premier League.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

One of the best stadiums in world football.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

And they could be playing in the second tier.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

It has just been a disaster.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

Now, Spurs fans will point to a few things.

Whateley
BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)

Injuries have not helped.