It can be hard to read games watching TV because it's hard to see who's marking who, who's making the good runs etc, and also television commentators are fucking shit at describing what's going on and are often just silent.
I like to think I'm pretty good at reading games, I seem to be able to see in real time (on telly) what most people need replays to see, even though I'm fucking blind and wear big chunky glasses. Since I've been playing five a side the last few years I've gotten a lot better at figuring out what's going on and what's going wrong, who's fucking up their marking particularly since that's one skill I've really worked on myself, wasn't something I ever thought about before. Also since I got a lot more used to kicking the ball and the particular way you have to position your body/foot relative to the ball to make it bend and travel the way you want I can see why shots sometimes go wrong.
I thought this WC was pretty poor as well, just not many goals, even Spain, the best team in the world didn't seem to score much, the other traditionally powers were also poor: Brazil had no magic, the Dutch could've been modeled on Blackburn, France were a fucking joke, Italy and Portugal were also very poor (and of course England are shit). On top of this most of the best individual players in European club football were somewhere between average and poor. I think the teams I most enjoyed watching were Japan, Germany (the only big team who really shined) Uruguay and South Korea.
