I think people who sit towards the back in the stands understand the game better than those in the cheap seats at the front, on account of being able to see the 'bigger picture' as it were and appreciate the tactical minutiae.
I agree to an extent, but again it's an overly simplistic aspect of it; and that's the problem really as it is not a black and white argument.
You may visually 'see' the game better from different positions, which obviously can help to a extent. TV may even give the perfect view.
However it's how you then analyse that information that counts and that all stems from a person's own expectations, experience and intelligence.
I sit next to an absolute buffoon and sometimes I wonder if he watches the same game as everyone as his judgement is warped. It's ridiculous.
Yet, I also have sit next to a group of very rational, experience and articulate fellas who see it in an entirely different light from him.
But then back to TV, it may give you the game from multiple angles, but it doesn't give you the same depth you can get from the match.
You do not see how players act off the ball, their interactions with other players and overall body language; the little things that can mean a lot.
So maybe going the match does give a better perspective to the game in some extents, but you'll still have idiots who can't interpret that correctly.
I think the only thing it can genuinely give is experience (as you regularly 'watch' football) although it's not the golden ticket to being a football God.
