Quote Originally Posted by Father Dougal View Post
In all my years of watching football this is always said but I’ve never seen any evidence to suggest this is the case.

Statistically I doubt there’s much difference either way but I’d certainly be surprised if playing teams with “nothing to play for” was any advantage at all. Thoughts?
Agree with is. You can look at it 2 way I guess. Players in teams with "nothing to play for" will either have a mindset of already being on beech and not 100 % up for it or either play in a relaxed manner with nothing at stake and go out and express themselves and without the pressure things may just click.

At the end of the day you can never really predict what the opposition will do regardless, you just have to go out and try to impose your game plan onto them.