Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
For the moment, he has lost the fans. It is the Mourinho effect. This kind of dreadful football is only acceptable when it is winning you things. The minute it isn't, you lose everyone.

They'll never say it, but I promise you this- the players HATE the way we play. You can see it in their actions. You can see how frustrated Declan Rice is, pretty much all the time. Nobody becomes a footballer to wrestle at corners and feign injury.
This.

Formulaic football. And when the formula doesn't work, we get Saturday's performance.