<<previous page MATT LAWRENCE IN THE CHAIR. (part three) WWISC: How do you explain the difference between our home and our away form, and what can the fans do to help the team at Adams Park? Matt: Since Lawrie Sanchez has taken over we've been excellent away from home, I'm not sure what it is. For one there's not the pressure in away games. The fans a Wycombe are great, but there's one thing that sticks out in my mind and that was last season, we were winning two-nil and there were a few minutes to half-time and we passed the ball back to Martin Taylor to waste a bit of time to go in with that lead as of course you don't want to concede a late goal. And there was boo's from some of the Wycombe fans and that really upset me and the rest of the players. We're two-nil up, doing brilliantly and you're trying to control the game and you get a lot of boo's. It hurts but it has to be a naivety of the football watching public because that's professionalism, that's winning the game, tying up the game. There's no point in trying to get a third and going and conceding one because that 'game on' again. WWISC: Are the players influenced by the crowd in any way? Matt: You shut yourself off to a certain extent, you obviously hear certain things and if a thousand people are booing then you hear that. We're not influenced particularly and if we were to find ourselves two-nil up with a couple of minutes to go, we'll pass the ball back to Martin. WWISC: Why do Wycombe always struggle against lower league sides? Matt: Since I've been at Wycombe I've only played against Oxford City so I can only speak about that. Oxford obviously raised their game, they had nothing to lose, they went for it and fair play to them but then we should have killed it off in the first game. They equalised in the last few minutes and it's one of those things that happen in the FA Cup. But all the same why did Wolves and West Brom struggle against us? WWISC: Is it a superstition of yours that you always retie your bootlaces on the field, or are you just not very good at tying them in the first place? Matt: I'm not very good at tying them, but for as long as I can remember whilst playing professional football I've pretty much always done that all the time. So yes it's a superstition but only when I play right-back, not when I play in the centre or centre-midfield. I've no explanation for that al all. WWISC: Do you think the standard of football is better in the second division is better this season then last season? Matt: I think it's quite similar. I know that we've lost the likes of Man City and Fulham who were extremely good sides and we beat City twice and drew with Fulham. So we've got rid of the two really big boys and we may still have the Wigan's, Burnley's and the Preston's who'll be up there at the end of the season. Everyone else can beat each other and even with those I don't think that there's anyone whose that exceptional. Stoke is a strong side but we had a very bad game against them but then again they have financial backing. The thing is it's the teams with money behind them which makes a lot of difference. It makes a lot of difference right across all football, if you look in the Premier League there' s the like of Wimbledon with not very much money and they struggle almost every season and just manage to stay up whereas the likes of Liverpool and Manchester Utd can pay forty thousand pounds a week wages. Or even like Roy Keane up to fifty thousand pounds a week at Manchester Utd, you just can't compete with that. It's all down to money, the same as everything else in life. next page...	See also...
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