Blue Hefner
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Away goals were brought in to stop teams turning up and parking the bus as was the reason to increase wins from 2 points to 3 in the domestic leagues. In the main it has worked. Older fans will remember going to home European games where we were drawn at home first and being bored to tears and ending up not going to these games. Fenerbache still haunts me.
They were also brought in as any away team had a genuine disadvantage due to some teams being behind the Iron Curtain, budgets being small so scouting was difficult/impossible and also the state of the pitches
Teams literally wouldn't know who played left-wing or the opposition skill set until 20 minutes in.
None of those reasons can be reasonably argued in 2020, that is why I think away goals should be scrapped