Whilst we all would like to experience the winning feeling of beating the bigger sides away from home again/more regularly, placing so much importance on this is ridiculous in relation to the finishing positions he achieved and discussing his overall time as manager. It was a reasonably important aspect but no where near as important as actually competing in the League Table against the top clubs where he regularly had us punching above our weight in terms of resources.
We didn't beat any of them in 04/05 yet came 4th. Does that mean that the 4th placed finish isn't worth as much praise because we lost a few crunch games away? What about 13/14 under Martinez? That was an excellent season and the most important thing was our impressive 5th placed finish and record PL points total. We didn't beat any of the top 6 away then either though.
The knife to a gunfight mentality was a pathetic and negative attitude from Moyes in a lot of them games but there also seems to be a bit of re-writing of history going on to make out he was the cause of the lack of success in these games.
After winning in the August of 1992, we didn't win a single game at Old Trafford from that time until 2002 when he came in. We won once at Arsenal in that 10 year period, once at Chelsea and twice at Anfield. So how exactly is Moyes to blame for our repeated failures at those grounds? And coincidentally, since Moyes left, we have only managed a single victory at any of them. Against a 7th placed Man United side.