here are the 3 games early on that had people freaking out about Manure and crisis (plus the CL, BUT they lost to 2 of the 4 semi-finalists from last year, hardly shit teams)
all were at home for them, where they were struggling
Looking back, Arse beat us and for some reason gets pumped up for top teams
that leaves just the 2 bad losses
Palace
and then the one-off (and the one that REALLY kicked into play the crisis meme) the Spuds thrashing)
again looking back, Palace has have multiple good surprising results
and Pool had a similar bizarro world blow-out that has ended up meaning little, when Villa smashed them 7-2
Manure is unbeaten in their last 10 games now
I think most went full panic mode too early with Manure, especially with only 3 losses all year in the EPL (those 3 losses I listed are their ONLY loses in the league so far(