Tottenham fans are about to get the Thomas Frank news they are cruelly rooting for

There are few things that a fan base that has been mired in misery over the last several years in the Premier League loves more than the misery of a rival, and Tottenham Hotspur supporters are on the verge of watching local London rivals Crystal Palace, whom they dismantled 2-0 a couple of weeks ago, get a hefty dose of schadenfreude of their own doing.

Despite gutting their entire squad systematically over the past three years and leaving their new manager Pierre Sage almost totally bereft of talent, the Eagles are set to make the former Lens ace, who could reunite with the Ligue 1 underdogs, a scapegoat.

Thomas Frank, the disgraced former Tottenham manager, has been steadily linked with a move to Palace and a return to coaching in London in the English top flight despite nearly getting one of the biggest clubs in the world relegated to the second division.

And according to Sky Sports News, those Frank to Crystal Palace rumors are not quelling at all. In fact, they report that Frank is getting closer to being the next Eagles manager if they fire Pierre Sage. Sky Sports say that Sage's dismissal is expected, while Palace and the former Brentford coach are "progressing" in talks. Although terms have not been agreed, it sounds like things are moving forward to a point where it is very likely Frank is the next Palace manager.

Tottenham Hotspur fans would absolutely love if a rival followed in the footsteps of West Ham United and got themselves in an even worse position by hiring one of their failed managers. Thomas Frank always had his critics who surmised that his success at Brentford was more down to the structure handing things to him on a silver platter and deciding everything for him from recruitment to playing style, rather than their success being anything of his doing.

And since Brentford have actually been better since getting rid of Frank and now Tottenham are immediately significantly better without him, too, after he nearly got them relegated, there is more evidence that he is an albatross of coaching and an all time media driven fraud. Now, the media are about to get their wish with Frank already getting a relatively high profile appointment in England, and if he is confirmed, Spurs fans will be darkly cheering on his and Palace's relegation at the end of the season.