Home comforts : the role of hormones, territoriality and perceptions on the home advantage in football

Since the seminal work of Schwartz and Barsky (1977) detailing the notion of a home advantage, whereby teams perform consistently better at home opposed to away, there has been a plethora of research dedicated to studying this phenomenon. Many explanations for the home advantage have been proposed,...

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Main Author: Anderson, Melissa
Other Authors: Wolfson, Sandy
Published: Northumbria University 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553571