Self imploding is a team thing and yes every single player, including the great Kane buckles under pressure. Front foot, underdogs then we look great but the second we try to defend or have an expectation to win (genuine one) we buckle/can’t be bothered. That seems to be a culture thing to me as it has been happening before Poch, think back to Redknapp or even Jol, how many FA cup ties we should win do we limp out on (like Portsmouth in the day). Can you even think of the last group of players we had that took a game we were losing and pulled the team back due to their strength of Will/mentality because I can’t.
Think Beckham vs Greece, or Keane or Ince etc, those type of strong players who took ownership and responsibility. As fans we take the easy way, it’s the manager, it’s the tactics or it’s Eric dier is crap not as a club we have a systemic culture issue dating back to the early 90’s that for whatever reason no manager has been able to eradicate (maybe since Venables) and when new players come in they just adapt this culture and go from being great to scared to perform, scared to fail