S. Hilditch's scientific contributions

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Article
Four teams in the four divisions of the English Football League have been playing their home matches on artificial pitch surfaces at certain times over the last 10 years or so. A Commission of Enquiry (Football League, 1989) recently recommended that the introduction of further artificial pitches be restricted. One of the factors leading to this re...

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... Regarding the causes of home advantage, several potential reasons have been proposed over the years, including the following: crowd support (Agnew & Carron, 1994;Nevill & Holder, 1999;Pollard, 2006a), travel fatigue (Nevill & Holder, 1999;Pace & Carron, 1992;Pollard, 2006a), familiarity (Barnett & Hilditch, 1993;Pollard, 1986;Pollard, 2002), referee bias (Nevill & Holder, 1999;Garicano et al., 2005;Buraimo et al., 2010), territoriality (Neave & Wolfson, 2003;Pollard, 2006b), special tactics (Seckin & Pollard, 2008;Carmichael & Thomas, 2005), rule factors (Jacklin, 2005;Thomas et al., 2004), and psychological factors (Terry et al., 1998;Thout et al., 1998). For detailed explanations, we refer the reader to reviews that summarize these articles that examine the potential causes (e.g., Legaz-Arrese et al., 2013;Nevill & Holder, 1999;Pollard, 2008). ...