QuoteHow?!
As a once off, maybe, but they just drone continuously throughout the game, with no relevance to what's happening on the pitch.
I enjoyed the horns actually.Originally Posted by pineapple stu
How?!
As a once off, maybe, but they just drone continuously throughout the game, with no relevance to what's happening on the pitch.
Watching a match with the volume off can be nice.
(I agree the horns are annoying though.)
It's an option alright, though you need to have some background, stadium noise.
Those things would put me off going to the World Cup entirely, TBH.
Take a tape-recorder to the Bowl and play it back on your stereo.
Come on, that's like refusing to go to a nightclub on the pull cos they might play rubbish music!Those things would put me off going to the World Cup entirely, TBH.
Well, maybe.
(Though I'd more liken it to "They will absolutely definitely have a hive of bees nesting in the stereo system")
Completely agree about those pointless rage inducing trumpets of satan. They destroy the atmosphere in the stadium and are not used in any way to reflect the mood of the fans toward whats happening on the pitch or to give support to your team. They are just feckin noise.Well, maybe.
(Though I'd more liken it to "They will absolutely definitely have a hive of bees nesting in the stereo system"
I hope im right in thinking the WC will be different, that the stadiums will be filled with a majority of actual fans there to support there team and not people out to make random noise and dance about with little care as to whats happening on the pitch....... from what I have seen S. Africans dont really give a hoot about football ()
I did a little bit of research and noticed that they banned these things from rugby games as the majority of fans complained about them
Last edited by Oink; 29/06/2009 at 2:56 PM.
Sentence of the week without a doubt...and it's only Monday!!
They'll never be banned from Soccer games, Rugby is very white/middle class going to a rugby game & a soccer game are 2 very veyr different experiences in SA.
Is it part of their culture?The vuvuzela is a part of SA football culture, it will be everywhere
The pundits in Brazil dug up some tv footage of Brazil's game in South Africa from a few years ago and there were no horns.
Guy in the Guardian article mentioned that he had never seen them at the African nations cup ever ! seem to be a very recent phenonmen - wonder if a member of FIFA has any interest in the company supplying them
They've been at club games as long as I've been coming to SA (10 years) I've never been to a Baffana game so can't really comment.
I like the cynicism NewryRep but in this case I think it's unfounded.
Fair enough Endabob1
Just because it is part of a club culture doesn't earn it any justification for use in the WC finals. Some parts of culture are best kept very local.
I went to a league game once in the Westmann Islands, off the south coast of Iceland.
It was played in awful weather, gale force driving rain. There was nobody at the game, or so I thought. As soon as the locals won a corner, I thought I heard a din in the wind coming from somewhere. Then they scored a goal and all hell broke loose with the noise levels. I looked up over behind the far goal, on top of the small cliff was a car park, there were about 50 jeeps in a line, the supporters were in their jeeps with a grandstand view, blowing their horns/air horns like mad, flashing lights, totally surreal (but practical).
I wouldn't count on that, if having these things in the stadium is going to negatively affect the viewing figures and/or attendance then FIFA will most certainly get rid of them.... $£€ call the shots.
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