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Keown: Move to new home can drive Spurs to the Premier League title

mawspurs

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Delays to their new stadium were supposed to derail Tottenham’s season. Instead, it has given them a distinct advantage as they prepare to hunt down Liverpool. With their new home yet to be finished, six of Spurs’ first nine games of the season were away.
That means five of their next seven matches are at home — punctuated by winnable trips to struggling Cardiff and Fulham.

Source: Daily Mail
 

gusrowe

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Moving back home will be a great relief to both the team but above all our supporters and put the cream on the cake. But I have to say that this team and Poch have overcome a mountain of problems this season and proved all the press speculation and odds wrong. Can we do a Leicester or better I believe so but we will need a fully fit squad and luck. To achieve what we have today we have to thank Levy, Poch and the players. What we need to do is continue our unbridled support. I am a proud Spurs supporter and hope that this season we do get a trophy......fingers and toes crossed.
 

davidmatzdorf

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I think it could cut either way. The story is simplistic, as one might expect: when you're winning, the press big up every twitch and flutter and spin everything to make success sound inevitable (but with the equally inevitable mention of Pochettino joining Man Utd).

Moving back home could spark a fierce and determined reaction, or it could be disruptive. Fans and commentators tend to focus on the psychological aspects of home advantage, the noise of the crowd and the intensity of the players' desire. But there are also subliminal advantages to playing in a familiar setting, wherever it may be. Footballers make split-second decisions based on a kaleidoscope of sensory input and spatial awareness. After a season and a half playing at Wembley, our players know exactly where the ball is and how it is travelling, as it relates to the surroundings: the stands, the hoardings, the precise configuration of the pitch, even the way sound reverberates (or doesn't) in the open bowl-shaped stadium.

Whatever advantages they gain from the emotional experience of "coming home" and the intensity coming from the new Park Lane end and the new Shelf, they still have to get their physical and sensory bearings. There isn't a short cut to that.
 

Lilbaz

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I think it could cut either way. The story is simplistic, as one might expect: when you're winning, the press big up every twitch and flutter and spin everything to make success sound inevitable (but with the equally inevitable mention of Pochettino joining Man Utd).

Moving back home could spark a fierce and determined reaction, or it could be disruptive. Fans and commentators tend to focus on the psychological aspects of home advantage, the noise of the crowd and the intensity of the players' desire. But there are also subliminal advantages to playing in a familiar setting, wherever it may be. Footballers make split-second decisions based on a kaleidoscope of sensory input and spatial awareness. After a season and a half playing at Wembley, our players know exactly where the ball is and how it is travelling, as it relates to the surroundings: the stands, the hoardings, the precise configuration of the pitch, even the way sound reverberates (or doesn't) in the open bowl-shaped stadium.

Whatever advantages they gain from the emotional experience of "coming home" and the intensity coming from the new Park Lane end and the new Shelf, they still have to get their physical and sensory bearings. There isn't a short cut to that.

Our away form is better than our home. By quite a bit this season.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Our away form is better than our home. By quite a bit this season.
Surprisingly, there's not much in it. Our away record in all competitions is 12 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, which represents 2.24 points/match. Our home record is 8 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses, which represents 2.18 points/match.
 

Lilbaz

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Surprisingly, there's not much in it. Our away record in all competitions is 12 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, which represents 2.24 points/match. Our home record is 8 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses, which represents 2.18 points/match.

You are correct, i was talking league. Which is 602 to 902.
Obviously we've played more away games.
 

JC-Rule

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Our away form is better than our home. By quite a bit this season.

It all always games from my point of view.

Wembley has not and will never be our home.

We are lodgers, and the fans are growing weary of making the trip.

That Wolves game may have been different at the Lane.

As tired as our players were, in front of their home crowd in their own fortress, they may have limped home with a draw.
 

SugarRay

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It all always games from my point of view.

Wembley has not and will never be our home.

We are lodgers, and the fans are growing weary of making the trip.

That Wolves game may have been different at the Lane.

As tired as our players were, in front of their home crowd in their own fortress, they may have limped home with a draw.

Yep. It makes such a difference. We won’t have teams looking forward to coming and playing like they do with Wembley. It’s such a famous name and somewhere everyone wants to play that I’m amazed we’ve achieved the results we have there.
 
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