Win your home games and get something on your travels - it’s the simple recipe for success in football.
Making your own ground a fortress can go along way when it comes to finishing up the right end of the table at the end of the season and if Fulham and Bournemouth are anything to go by in the Championship - that’s very much the case.
Away from the top though and home form can also help those at the bottom end of the table. If a relegation struggler can manage to grind results out on their own patch - regardless of how they do on the road - it can go a long, long way in their bid for survival.
BirminghamWorld have taken a look at what the 2021/22 Championship table would look like, in full, if it was based solely on the 23 games played at home.

5. Sheffield United (5th) - 44 points
P23 W13 D5 L5 GF38 GA15 GD+23 Photo: Darren Staples

6. West Brom (6th) - 44 points
P23 W12 D8 L3 GF33 GA16 GD+17 Photo: Getty Images

7. Middlesbrough (7th) - 44 points
P23 W14 D2 L7 GF34 GA21 GD+13 Photo: Marc Atkins

8. Nottingham Forest (8th) - 43 points
P23 W13 D4 L6 GF43 GA22 GD+21 Photo: Michael Regan


