Quote ="MjM"I imagine it's more likely they will beat London, possibly less convincingly than might be expected, and then come up with a pair of creditable performances after that. Assuming the team has a few players back from injury anyway.
It's not a unique phenomenon but Smith's teams really do perform much better when they are underdogs.'"
The nature of being underdogs is that you generally need to be not winning and playing poorly to get the moniker.