Quote Originally Posted by HCZ View Post
The simple answer is when you play at home it’s not just the home support but the familiarity of the pitch (there is a standard size football pitch but premier league pitches can differ) which benefits you and makes the opposition more cautious.

But you’re right the vast disparity is bizarre, at home in the last 25 games we have won 20 drawn 3 and lost 2. Which is a difference of a win rate of 80% and a win rate of 28%
The opposition still treat us like a big club when they come to our place and show us respect we don't deserve. I haven't checked, but I bet all of the games where we've been allowed the time and space to play our intricate bullshit occurred at home because the opposition aren't as ambitious. How long we hang on to this fake reputation I don't know. Surely only a matter of time before teams come to our place confident they can get a result.

It could also be the non-atmosphere in the stadium. Not joking. Our place is so weird, so dead, it might actually put the other team off or send them asleep. But we are used to it. I think the players even like it. The contented munching sounds coming from the sedate fanatics in the home end.

When we go away the opposition fans are up for it, the home team fancies it and we just collapse into a scared and uber-negative tip tap routine that gets us nowhere and opens up te way for even poor teams to crucify us on the break.