The home team advantage gives football referees something to ruminate about

International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 545-552

  Poolton, Jamie ^a   Siu, Chan ^b   Masters, Rich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Asian Football Confederation ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Association Football; Decision Making; Home Field Advantage; Performance Pressure; Referee Bias; Reinvestment Scale; Soccer

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053476367     PISSN: 17479541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1747-9541.6.4.545     Document Type: Article

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