I think that is the thing that most irritates me about a lot of the comments around us this season. There was a reason to play defensively against Wolves, we've been conceding goals like it's going out of fashion, morale is so low a single goal conceded leads to the confidence going. That's...
2 thoughts:
1) In the context, it sounds like a misuse of the phrase 'downed tools'. Typically that suggests protest, like the players were stubbornly refusing to do as instructed by their boss. In the context of the quote above it sounds very much like he simply meant we'd stopped trying to...