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I’m saying the meme doesn’t really apply.
It’s used in situations where literally everyone can see the house is burning down and one person is pretending that everything is fine and it isn’t happening.
I don’t think either of those things apply here.

I haven’t seen any pre season games and if I had I wouldn’t be drawing any conclusions from them.
I’m generally pretty happy with our summer dealings, but other clubs have done good business too.
I honestly don’t know how we will do this season. I’m not super confident about things but
I don’t think we will completely crash and burn.
But until the season gets going and the table starts to take shape it’s hard to be sure.
If the room is getting hotter, the air is getting harder to breathe and your eyes are stinging from smoke…there’s a good chance that what you’ve got is a fire on your hands

Your argument that it’s pre-season so it doesn’t count, would make sense if we were somehow playing differently to how we were especially at the end of last season, but we aren’t…what’s scary about these defeats is how familiar they seem.

And we can go well we need to wait and see if this player comes back from injury, or this player beds in well. Horse shit. To use a Simpson’s analogy we are stuck in a tar pit trying to use our arms to pull our legs free.

We could miraculously start playing purposefully at Old Trafford making the stodgy ineffective mess that’s been all four pre-season games an aberration, ask yourself this…how likely do you think that is?