Tense Review with the help of Manolo

Look at the sentence cues in the picture. Can you remember what was making Manolo sad last year?
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Use the correct tense for the words (in brackets) -with the expressions we used- to reflect how Manolo was feeling.
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Manolo was going through a bad patch this time last year.
For a start, his football term (was) (in) (danger) (be) of being relegated, having only won two matches all season.
And if that wasn't bad enough, he opened his barber's salon one morning to discover that his favourite Vespa (had) (been) (stolen) (steal).
As you can imagen, he was really pissed off. But things just seemed to be going from bad to worse.
Not only (was) (is) the competition (taking) (take) away his customers, but those who were loyal, lifelong customers (had) (started) (start) dumping all their emotional problems on him.
As if he didn't have enough of his own! And this all meant that he (couldn't) (take) (take) a break from his work all day.
At least being so busy kept his mind off all his other worries, I guess.
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