Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
I don't get the home/ away thing. Teams that do well at home and get fucked when away have a weak, girly mentality as far as I'm concerned. If it was me, I'd be more up for it on enemy territory than at home. Still a football pitch, still a ball, still a set of goals. Only real difference I can see, provided our darling professionals can at least tune out the hostile crowd (a bare minimum requisite at this level surely), is the ref who can be a homer. But apart from that, what's the difference. Or what's the difference that could be excused in relation to a professional sportsman?
And yet despite that almost every season teams whether they finish top or bottom of the table have a better home record than away record.