Maybe I'm over stating it a bit, but it is hard to see people being as angry with last week's performance as they were if they weren't expecting a win. Yeah, the performance was bad, but if you're expecting a loss and see a poor performance and a loss, there tends to be a different response...
I think it's a combination of things, really.
Of course there's the obvious - Watford played better than a lot of fans expected, and united played worse.
While it was bad performance last week, people got carried away about what it meant with regard to the teams ability to play football. They...