More like: "Expectation perception describes how our beliefs about what will happen influence how we interpret and experience what is actually happening." It also applies to how each of us perceives what is happening during games.
We're now over a week in to this "next manager appointed before the next league match". I'd assumed, perhaps naively that the next gaffer would have a few days training with the squad, it appears not. With that in mind then, what was the actual point of sacking Manning if we're having a caretaker in charge? We may as well kept him on whilst the board conduct their "detailed assessments", so much for any sort of succession plan in place at board level.