Spurs 1-2 Newcastle

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Newcastle put an end to Thomas Frank's torrid time at Spurs with a shockingly easy victory in London, the 2-1 scoreline barely doing our domination justice.

Lining up with no recognised striker, despite having three on the bench, the front three of Barnes, Elanga and Gordon (in the centre) hassled and harried from the off, winning corner after corner.

Our away performances this season have tended to fall into one of two categories - dominate but look less and less like scoring as the game goes on, or completely stink out the joint.

This was tending towards the former, but the breakthrough looked to have come following a perfectly timed run and brilliant finish from Willock five minutes from half time.

Unfathomably however, the VAR found a way to disallow it, determining that a fraction of his forehead was offside as he burst through on goal 50 yards out.

An absolute mockery of the offside rule and completely beyond a farcical interpretation of the purposes of VAR.

Thankfully, a few minutes later Thiaw was on hand to absolutely monster his way through a corner, planting the ball home at the second attempt whilst a feeble Spurs defence watched on with mild disinterest.

Had we not gone in ahead it would have been interesting to see how we'd react to the travesty of justice regarding Willock's goal.

Luckily we did have the lead, as inevitably Spurs scored from their first corner (we'd had 11 by this point).

But as a measure of how much further we could fall, or rather how much resilience we actually still have, we retook the lead four minutes later, an excellent jinking run from Gordon ending in him poking a great ball across the box for Ramsey to finish with aplomb.

Whilst it's unlikely we'll play a worse side than Spurs this season, it was nonetheless heartening to see improved performances from Elanga and Gordon, tempered slightly by what looked like a muscle injury for the returning Bruno and Tonali's continuing indifferent form.

Spurs wasted no time in relieving Frank from his position the day after the game.

Their turbulent management history can be traced back to disposing of Pochettino, who had delivered so much success and was loved by fans.

Let's not make the same mistake with our manager, who has led a frankly unfathomable turnaround in this club's fortunes.