BURNLEY, England (AP) — Tottenham fans again rounded on under-pressure coach Thomas Frank in the team's underwhelming 2-2 draw at next-to-last Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday.
The game ended with more chants by Spurs' travelling contingent for Frank to be fired, after Cristian Romero’s diving header in the 90th minute salvaged a point.
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Tottenham Hotspur's Cristian Romero scores his side's second goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur, at Turf Moor, in Burnley, England, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Richard Sellers/PA via AP)
Tottenham Hotspur's Cristian Romero, center celebrates scoring his side's second goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur, at Turf Moor, in Burnley, England, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Richard Sellers/PA via AP)
Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank looks on during a training session in London, Monday Jan. 19, 2026, one day ahead of their Champions League soccer match against Borussia Dortmund. (Bradley Collyer/PA via AP)
Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank reacts on the touchline, during the English Premier League soccer match between Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur, at Turf Moor, in Burnley, England, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)
The mounting pressure on Frank had eased somewhat thanks to a 2-0 win over Borussia Dortmund in midweek, which left Tottenham in fifth place in the Champions League standings.
It has returned, similar to the levels it was last weekend when angry Tottenham fans called for the Danish coach's departure after a 2-1 home loss to West Ham.
“First and foremost, I want to thank them for travelling and supporting the team throughout the game," Frank, the replacement for Ange Postecoglou in the offseason, said about the fans. “I’m sure they can recognize and acknowledge, especially the first half, the improvement there. We could and should have been out of sight.
“But also they acknowledge the willpower and character of the team that keep running, keep fighting to the end. We just need to keep going. We do so many things right but there’s no doubt it’s not dropping so easy for us.”
Tottenham’s winless league run in 2026 was extended to five matches. The team is languishing in 14th place, eight points above the relegation zone.
“The message to the fans, as I’ve said all the time, is that we’re working very hard to make sure everything is going (in) the right direction," Frank said, “and that we’ll keep doing that.”
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Tottenham Hotspur's Cristian Romero scores his side's second goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur, at Turf Moor, in Burnley, England, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Richard Sellers/PA via AP)
Tottenham Hotspur's Cristian Romero, center celebrates scoring his side's second goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur, at Turf Moor, in Burnley, England, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Richard Sellers/PA via AP)
Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank looks on during a training session in London, Monday Jan. 19, 2026, one day ahead of their Champions League soccer match against Borussia Dortmund. (Bradley Collyer/PA via AP)
Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank reacts on the touchline, during the English Premier League soccer match between Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur, at Turf Moor, in Burnley, England, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Almost 12,000 flights across the U.S. set to take off over the weekend were canceled as a monster storm started to wreak havoc Saturday across much of the country and threatened to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways with dangerous ice.
Roughly 140 million people, or more than 40% of the U.S. population, were under a winter storm warning from New Mexico to New England. The National Weather Service forecast warned of widespread heavy snow and a band of catastrophic ice stretching from east Texas to North Carolina. By midday Saturday, a quarter of an inch (0.6 centimeters) of ice was reported in parts of southeastern Oklahoma, eastern Texas and portions of Louisiana.
“What really makes this storm unique is, just following this storm, it’s just going to get so cold,” said Allison Santorelli, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "The snow and the ice will be very, very slow to melt and won’t be going away anytime soon, and that’s going to hinder any recovery efforts.”
Governors in more than a dozen states sounded the alarm about the turbulent weather ahead, declaring emergencies or urging people to stay home.
“Please use these final hours to be prepared, to make sure that you have blankets and warmth and food to make it through this storm,” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger said Saturday at a news conference. “And every Virginian should stay off the road as of this evening, all day Sunday, and at least into the morning on Monday.”
The Texas Department of Transportation on Saturday posted images of snow-covered highways in the suburbs north of Dallas. Ice and sleet that hit northern Texas overnight moved toward the central part of the state on Saturday. By mid-morning Saturday, ice had formed on roads and bridges in a third of Mississippi’s counties.
Little Rock, Arkansas, was covered with sleet and snow Saturday morning, giving Chris Plank doubts about whether he would be able to make a five-hour drive to Dallas for work on Sunday. While some snow was a yearly event, he could only recall three ice storms in the previous 20 years that he had lived in Little Rock, and that potential ice concerned him the most.
“All of the power lines are above ground, so it doesn't take very much to end up in the dark,” Plank said Saturday morning.
Forecasters say the damage, especially in areas pounded by ice, could rival that of a hurricane.
More than 119,000 outages were reported across the country Saturday morning, including about 51,000 in Texas, 20,000 in Louisiana and nearly 11,000 in New Mexico, according to poweroutage.us.
All Saturday flights were canceled at Will Rogers International Airport in Oklahoma City, and all Sunday morning flights also were called off, as officials aimed to restart service Sunday afternoon at Oklahoma’s biggest airport.
As of 1 p.m. ET, more than 3,700 flights were canceled Saturday across the country, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware. Almost 8,000 flights were called off for Sunday. Among the hardest hit airports were Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Nashville International Airport and Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
After sweeping through the South, the storm was expected to move into the Northeast, dumping about 1 to 2 feet (30 to 60 centimeters) of snow from Washington through New York and Boston, the weather service predicted.
“Please, if you can avoid it, do not drive, do not travel, do not do anything that can potentially place you or your loved ones in danger,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Saturday. “Instead, I urge every New Yorker who can to put a warm sweater on, turn on the TV, watch ‘Mission Impossible’ for the 10th time, above all to stay inside.”
Officials in Georgia advised people in the state’s northern regions to get off the roads by sundown Saturday and be prepared to stay put for at least 48 hours.
Will Lanxton, the senior state meteorologist, said Georgia could get “perhaps the biggest ice storm we have expected in more than a decade” followed by unusually cold temperatures.
“Ice is a whole different ballgame than snow,” Lanxton said. “Ice, you can’t do anything with. You can’t drive on it. It’s much more likely to bring down power lines and trees.”
Crews began treating highways with brine after midnight Saturday, with 1,800 workers on 12-hour shifts, said Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry.
“We’re going to do what we can to keep the ice from sticking to the roads,” McMurry said. “This is going to be a challenge.
Utility companies braced for power outages because ice-coated trees and power lines can keep falling long after a storm has passed.
The Midwest saw windchills as low as minus 40 F (minus 40 C), meaning that frostbite could set in within 10 minutes. The minus 36 F (minus 38 C) reading in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, on Saturday morning was the coldest in almost 30 years.
In Bismarck, North Dakota, where the windchill was minus 41 (minus 41 Celsius), Colin Cross was bundled up Friday in long johns, two long-sleeve shirts, a jacket, hat, hood, gloves and boots as he cleaned out an empty unit for the apartment complex where he works.
“I’ve been here awhile, and my brain stopped working,” Cross said.
Workers from The Orange Tent Project, a Chicago nonprofit that provides cold weather tents and other supplies to unhoused individuals throughout the city, went out to check on those who did not or could not seek shelter.
“Seeing the forecasted weather, I knew we had to come out and do this today,” said CEO Morgan McLuckie.
Churches moved Sunday services online, and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, decided to hold its Saturday night radio performance without fans. Mardi Gras parades in Louisiana were canceled or rescheduled.
Schools superintendents in Philadelphia and Houston announced that schools would be closed Monday.
Some universities in the South canceled classes for Monday, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Mississippi’s main campus in Oxford.
President Donald Trump said via social media on Friday that his administration was coordinating with state and local officials, and “FEMA is fully prepared to respond.”
Nine states have requested emergency declarations, according to a FEMA briefing document released Saturday. The declarations can unlock federal emergency resources. Trump on Friday approved emergency declarations for South Carolina and Virginia, and requests from Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia were still pending as of Saturday morning.
“I think there are two parts of this storm that make it unique. One is just a broad expanse of spatial coverage of this event ... You’ve got 2,000 miles of country that’s being impacted by the storm with snow, sleet, and freezing rain,” said Josh Weiss, a meteorologist at NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center. “The other part of this storm that’s really impressive is what’s going to happen right afterward. We’re looking at extreme cold, record cold.”
Associated Press writers Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida, Rio Yamat in Las Vegas, Julie Walker in New York and Laura Bargfeld in Chicago contributed to this report. Amy reported from Atlanta and Collins reported from Hartford, Connecticut.
A flight status screen shows canceled flights to the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area from the Salt Lake City International Airport amid a winter storm Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Sydney Schaefer)
Sea smoke rises from Casco Bay at sunrise on a 1-degree F. morning as a ferry boat makes its way to Portland, Maine, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Island commuters are bundled against the cold as they disembark from a ferry on a 1-degree F. morning, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Emma Nadeau, of North Yarmouth, Maine, photographs the pre-dawn scene overlooking Casco Bay on a 1-degree F. morning, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Emma Nadeau, of North Yarmouth, Maine, is bundled against the cold as she watches the sunrise on a 1-degree F. morning, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Ice crystals form inside a kitchen window in Lowville, New York, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)
Strong winds kick up snow in Lowville, New York, on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)
A person walks by a vehicle that was plowed in by snow in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)
Work crews stage with de-icing materials in their trucks ahead of expected inclement weather in Plano, Texas, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Doug Kunde watches as steam is seen over Lake Michigan as frigid temperatures for the day are not expected to reach zero degrees Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
People walk on an ice covered beach along the shore of Lake Michigan, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
