Football supporters provide insight into how religions were formed.
Both start with a central mystery, ie: why are we here, and why do we die? or, why is the team losing matches?
And then from there, they invent and concoct all manner of reasons which, despite little to no evidence, help provide solace to the anguished and confused.
The same is more or less true of conspiracy theories, which is essentially what most of the recent posts in this thread amount to.
Blaming a secret cabal of mentally-weak senior squad fillers who've been among our best players but now feature only when everyone else is injured is... not among the more edifying of the available dogmas.
Let's all try to be a bit more Enlightenment and a lot less Branch Davidian then, when it comes to the celestial uncertainties of Leighton Baines.