Not really, it was a surprise then too, it was hard to believe it was possible what was done then. It was very quick too, just bam bam and it's a demotion with -37 or so points

Then the appeals started.
But then there were no such things as "we're doooooooooomed", we were just not used to that stuff, so not so many went into crazy mode.
A lot of angry people against players jumping ship though. Interestingly it seems almost no one now is angry at Conte now, even though with the current info it seems he did exactly that now.