Van de Ven brushes off Frank snub and reflects on his Spurs wondergoal

<ul><li><p>He feels incident with manager blown out of proportion</p></li><li><p>Defender told himself he had to score after storming run</p></li></ul><p>Micky van de Ven has downplayed the furore over his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/03/thomas-frank-tottenham-micky-van-de-ven-djed-spence-copenhagen-champions-league-chelsea">standoff with Thomas Frank</a> after Tottenham’s Premier League defeat by Chelsea on Saturday, insisting it was misinterpreted and blown out of proportion. The centre-half preferred to focus on how the team had bounced back to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/04/tottenham-fc-copenhagen-champions-league-match-report">thrash Copenhagen</a> in the Champions League on Tuesday – a tie in which he scored a thrilling individual goal.</p><p>Van de Ven was all smiles after Copenhagen, his surge and finish from one box to the other drawing comparisons to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SATljljXCY">Son Heung-min’s Puskas Award-winning effort</a> for Spurs against Burnley in 2019. It was a vivid contrast to the post-Chelsea scenes when Spurs were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/01/tottenham-chelsea-premier-league-match-report">booed off</a> by their home crowd, having also been jeered by them during the game.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/05/micky-van-de-ven-thomas-frank-snub-spurs-wondergoal">Continue reading...</a>