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Originally Posted by Tio
The visiting team and coach are more paranoid than the home team.
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This is a very broad statement which is not necessarily true.
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They are usually travel weary, have had the fans jeering them since warmups........
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Sound like personal problems to me. Actually sounds kinda like being an official.
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, and now have 3 officials that the coach has never seen work before......
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Actually, depending on the level, either coach may or may not have seen the officials before.
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Unfortunately, there is some truth to the "hometown cooking" syndrome. I once had an official tell me he called his block/charges for the hometeam because he had them 3 more times on the schedule. This is wrong.........
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So you propose to make up for this by being extra careful not to make a call against the visitors, particularly at the start of the game.