It's not balls, it's being shown up to have made a mistake. Ever since he was shown up to be a proven liar for the whole world to know about, he's had it in for us. Before Keegan-gate, he was fine. If all he wanted then was what he wants now, he'd never have sacked Allardyce.
Maybe our best hope of changing the situation is to try to bring him around to how he was at the start, step 1 is get a manager we can actually get behind.