MARTIN SAMUEL: Jose won the league with a team playing like the poorest champions in history. Maybe it's not him... It's them

There is a cynical theory that some Chelsea players actually want Jose Mourinho sacked. That they are not putting it in for him. That he has become the hoary football cliche - a manager who has lost the dressing room. He denies it, of course, but certainly on Saturday Chelsea appeared sluggish compared to Jurgen Klopp's revitalised Liverpool. On Sunday the BBC quoted an unnamed player saying he would rather lose than win for Mourinho. For there is another way of looking at this debacle - although it won't have occurred to those secretly revelling in Mourinho's downfall. It's not him, it's them.