On referee bias, crowd size, and home advantage in the English soccer Premiership.
In a recent paper in this journal, Boyko and colleagues (2007) identified differences in attendance and referee bias as factors influencing home advantage at soccer matches in the English Premiership. A replication of their study using more recent data found no evidence to sustain either of their claims.
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School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. r.johnston@bristol.ac.uk
D003657:Decision Making; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D012916:Soccer / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards; D012931:Social Environment