"It was the chant that had simmered for many weeks and there was an inevitability when it was belted out by the Tottenham support at the very last. Sacked in the morning, they yelled at Thomas Frank, the frustration unbearable. They have seen enough. In their opinion, the manager has to go. Whether the club's board agree is unclear. They know the problems that Frank has faced and continues to face during a season of turmoil and transition."
"It was the West Ham substitute Callum Wilson who took a match to the tinderbox of emotions in the third minute of stoppage time. The striker had just been kept out by a last-ditch Pedro Porro block. But when Oliver Scarles dropped over the corner and the Spurs goalkeeper, Guglielmo Vicario, was boxed in, lacking the strength to make his presence felt, the ball broke for Wilson and he shot home."
"When Porro whipped in the cross from which Cristian Romero scored a desperately needed equaliser midway through the second-half, what happened next seemed to sum up the emotions. Porro turned to the Spurs fans in the West Stand and cupped his ear in their direction. And then he celebrated with a guttural roar. It was a wildly conflicting day, the home crowd yo-yoing between wanting to show their support and venting their spleen. In the end, the takeaway was the latter."
Tottenham supporters angrily chanted for Thomas Frank's removal as frustration boiled over amid a season of turmoil and transition. West Ham earned a late victory when substitute Callum Wilson scored in the third minute of stoppage time after a sequence involving Pedro Porro and a boxed-in goalkeeper. West Ham's first Premier League win in 11 matches followed an excellent first-half display highlighted by Crysencio Summerville's goal and Cristian Romero's equaliser from a Porro cross. Porro celebrated emphatically, while the home crowd fluctuated between support and venomous boos, leaving the fans' displeasure dominant.
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