Tony Cascarino has hit back at Thomas Frank after the Dane’s comments about Tottenham fans booing Guglielmo Vicario.
Emerson Royal was the last Tottenham player to get booed by his own fans, and that treatment was handed out by the Spurs faithful to Vicario on Saturday.
After the Italian came out of his line and was caught in no-man’s land, allowing Fulham’s Harry Wilson to strike the ball into an empty net, boos were ringing around the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium the next few times he touched the ball.
There were even ironic cheers from Spurs fans when he made a save, and this did not please their head coach.
Tony Cascarino claims Tottenham fans are within their rights to boo
After the game, Thomas Frank said that it was unacceptable for Spurs fans to boo their own players during a game, suggesting that any jerring should come after the final whistle.
The 52-year-old even asserted that those who booed Vicario were not real Spurs fans, and that comment did not go down well with Cascarino.
The pundit told talkSPORT about Frank’s post-match comments: “It’s wrong. Thomas is wrong. I’ve got a lot of admiration for Thomas Frank and what he did at Brentford. But you’re wrong. You can’t say they’re not true Tottenham fans if they boo. They are true Tottenham fans. They’re making themselves heard.
“They’re unhappy of what they’ve witnessed. And they’ve been unhappy certainly, in the last few weeks at the Tottenham Stadium. They have every right. Look booing is not nice. You can be a player that’s got family or friends in the stands. I had it in my career. I had bad periods where you got booed. You just have to take it and you know what you can win them over.
“But when you make such an error like the keeper did. And they’re booing him because they’re furious with him because they’re thinking, ‘We’ve just been beaten by our arch rivals in the north London derby. Then we’ve been conceded five in Paris. And then, funny enough, after six minutes we’re 2-0 down’. And the second one, mate, is on you.”
Cascarino sympathises with Spurs fans
The former Chelsea star pointed out that Tottenham fans were going to be frustrated at the end of what has been a disastrous week for the club.
He suggested that some fan bases abroad treat their sides even more harshly when they are not happy with the performances.
Asked if the fans are now turning on Frank, Cascarino added: “They’re unhappy. They’ve been unhappy from last season. There’s things that have gone on. Their results have been pretty terrible at home.
“Ange Postecoglou last year, it was a disastrous season. You know and it’s going that way again. I mean because they’ve done okay. You know up until the last week, it has been a terrible week for Tottenham Hotspur.
“You know like Arsenal then PSG and then this game another London derby. It’s been a terrible week. What do you want [the fans] to do? Clap them, applaud them? They’re not going to do that.”
When pressed further on Frank’s comment that those who booed are not ‘true fans’, the 63-year-old said: “No, you can’t say that. You cannot say that. I said to you yesterday, we had a conversation about fans abroad and some of the demands on them.
“We have fans that are very considerate. If it’s booing, it’s as bad as it gets, which it is. That’s the worst thing that fans do. You go abroad and I’m not condoning any of this. But it’s far worse in many different countries.”