Without the away goals rule you would have more ties going into extra time and penalties (it happens a lot in South America, where they don't have it), which is the ultimate thing nobody wants to see in football. Yes, penalty shoot-outs are exciting, but everyone agrees (let's say almost everyone, just in case) that they are not proper football, and if there are ways of sorting the tie out without them, I'm for them. The golden and silver goals were just an additional way of trying to reduce even further the number of penalty shoot-outs. I wasn't unhappy with them. I thought they were fair, if only because of the simple fact that it was the same rule for both teams. They both know the stakes and it is up to them how they react.
Besides, doing away with this rule won't remove the fear factor or the shut-up-shop-and-defend-the-slenderest-of-leads factor. If you remove the rule and one team goes 1-0 ahead, the temptations will be exactly the same as if you got a 0-0 draw at home and are currently 1-1 away: it is a small lead, and it's up to you what you do with it.
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