17-03-2025
'Football is everything and nothing'
In a wide-ranging chat with BBC Radio 5 Live's Rick Edwards alongside club psychologist Michael Caulfield, Thomas Frank has opened up on how he deals with the pressure's of elite football management."For me, football is everything and nothing," he said. "I'm devastated after we lose, I'm irritated and every single fibre in my body hurts after the game because I'm irritated in different ways."But, on the flip side coming in on a Monday there's hope again. I'm working with good people and I believe and dream again and go one more time."I know what's the most important thing for me - family and friends."Caulfield has been at the club since 2016, around the same time Frank arrived as assistant head coach, and believes the relationship between the two has developed naturally over time."When you're in this it's not friendships at the minute because we're too busy, too committed," he said."And we are genuinely committed to what we are trying to do. A lot of trust has been developed and it hasn't been through force."You've got this Danish person and British person who had never met before and eight years later something has happened. I don't want to overthink it because like any good relationship it just happens."I know when to talk to Thomas and vice versa and when to leave him alone. We've worked out a way of handling each other because football is so totally irrational and completely emotional."There's a lot of trust, a lot of empathy, a lot of understanding. I like to think one skill I do have is to know when to shut up and leave a room."Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds
