That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue …, focusing on the outcome of the game (i.e., win, draw or defeat) as a measure of the overall success of a football team we … that a team’s performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue …