I've worked as a hod carrier before. You don't have to be dumb but a lot of people on site are.
It was an attack on Gallagher's skill not the intelligence of builders.
When ?? Maybe under mourinho but that was his fault. Playing badly on purpose is match fixing and would need to be coordinated. Underperforming collectively because of bad management is not the same
Doubt players deliberately played like shit. And you can't keep getting new squads for the same manager , too expensive and at that point it's clearly the managers fault
You really think ancelotti and Conte got sacked because the players "stopped trying"? Sarris last game was the Europa League final , did they win that by "not trying"?
Always comes from the top down , they aren't having confidence instilled in them, it's not like these players have secret meetings and decide to get the coach sacked