With World Cup fever under way it’s easy to get carried away by our emotions and lose the plot of what’s really happening on the pitch, even more so with the media being more sensationalist than ever and letting their passion take over. As Jose Mourinho once said, “football is a game about feelings and intelligence,” so there’s no harm in watching the game and supporting your team with passion, but if you want to read the game, analyse what’s happening and have an objective view, you have to look at it intelligently. I’ve taken this excerpt from Ruud Gullit’s book ‘How to Watch Football’, which gives us some sort of guidelines on how we should watch and read the game: