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Location of Away Fans - Any Impact?


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Having read about Villa switching where the away fans sit at Villa Park to enable better coverage of one end and also the fact that at many grounds (especially the larger ones) you are shoved in the corner etc is it worth thinking about where the away fans at SMS are placed?

 

I have thought for a while that having them behind the goal - especially at the end their team normnally shoot at in the 2nd half - is not perhaps ideal, especially for teams who fill the allocation. Games like Man Utd spring to mind where the presence of their fans behind the goal seems to lift them.

 

Would it be worth putting them on the side in the corner somewhere (believe this has been muted before?) or does it make zero difference?

 

FWIW Im not sure how much difference it makes but I would probably switch it so they kick that way in the first half rather than the second where the results of most games are decided - although by no means suggesting it often affects the results of games - but it can have an impact IMO.

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Sunderland have moved the away fans to the other end, top tier.

 

Martin O'Neil pushed it at Villa and now at Sunderland as he believes is gives the away team an advantage.

 

United are trying to move away fans to the wing, third tier up. Heard its higher than Newcastle's up there!

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