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Why does home advantage make a difference?

  • John Beattie - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland Sport commentator
  • 12 Feb 07, 11:50 AM

John Beattiesco_badge.gifI seek knowledge. Could someone please explain to me the concept of home advantage? Eh? What is it all about?

Why do teams playing on a piece of turf that is 100m by 70m and largely identical to any other such piece of turf .

Hoarse, tired, happy. That’s how it feels after you’ve won, and all I was doing was a commentary!

Having been at Murrayfield on Saturday and marvelled at how a Scottish rugby team with such a paucity of comparative resources can beat a Welsh team, life is a bit sweeter.

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Slam slips away

  • Jim Stokes - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Northern Ireland Sport
  • 12 Feb 07, 08:33 AM

j_stokes_6666.gifire_badge.gifDublin - Ah well, the old can be tucked away for another year.

That old warrior Jack Kyle was sincerely hoping that the days of him being wheeled out to talk about Ireland’s chances of emanating his '48ers would end this season.

I’m afraid that title is now going to be as elusive as Kyle was in his Pimpernel days in the late 1940s when the French tried to seek him here and seek him there, but failed to stop him dancing over the try line.

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