A bogey ground is one of those terms regularly used in football discourse that, quite simply – no one knows exactly how to define.
On the face of it, a ‘bogey ground’ is a stadium where a team struggles to pick up regular results from, or is consistently on the end of terrorising defeats.
Take Watford for example, they must hate the sight of the Etihad Stadium. The Hornets have failed to beat Manchester City away from home since April 1987 – and that’s when the Blues were still at Maine Road and the Premier League was still five years away from its formation.
In their 12 visits to City since that day, the north-west London outfit have lost on 11 occasions, with an aggregate score of 37-7. ALSO READ: Nedum Onuoha makes Man City 'nervous' admission for big Liverpool tests This is particularly relevant with Pep Guardiola's first post-international break task coming in the form of Sean Dyche’s Burnley - at Turf Moor.
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