Guest ttfn Posted 13 June 2010 Posted 13 June 2010 It's an AFRICAN World Cup if it's part of the heritage keep it! Rubbish. They were invented 7 years ago. It's the equivalent of banning goal music. What I don't get is, why? Why do they do this? Who thinks "I've paid two weeks' wages (or whatever) for a ticket, I'm going to spend the whole game tooting on a fooking horn, which is so big I can barely see past it, and blow it slightly louder when something exciting happens'. It's ridiculous. This is not just Africa's world cup. It is the world's world cup. And these horns are in danger of ruining it. I've gone from disappointed about them to downright pissed off.
Karljohn Posted 13 June 2010 Posted 13 June 2010 They sound like 1000s of flies. Flies hover around shit, and the world cup so far is....shit!
Shrenchel Posted 13 June 2010 Posted 13 June 2010 Can live with them but it just makes for a dry as fvck atmosphere. Can barely hear any crowd noise that varies when the teams are attacking or the game is picking up pace so just takes loads of the anticipation and excitment out of the game.
Narborough_fox Posted 13 June 2010 Posted 13 June 2010 Take them away from one or two games and see wether it changes the football and atmosphere.
Edmund Posted 13 June 2010 Posted 13 June 2010 I was talking more banned on health and safety grounds due to tinnitus. Don't be silly. Are you going to ban clubs that play music next? I liked it at first, but its pissing me off a tad now. Must have been soo annoying for the England supporters trying to get an atmosphere going only to be beaten by twats with these horns. Pretty much sums it up for me. In fact I didn't like them to start off with as they were annoying during the confederations cup but I was always pro vuvuzela due to them being part of the culture. I always expected them to be ever present during the South African matches but I thought that the other games would have the majority of their following there which would outnumber the horns. Oh how I was wrong. Rubbish. They were invented 7 years ago. It's the equivalent of banning goal music. But you're forgetting that South African football has only recently taken off again since the fall of apartheid
Guest Posted 13 June 2010 Posted 13 June 2010 Some company has made a lot of money out of them but they aren't good for football. Singing and clapping will be made extinct - droning bees could be played from the PA system if it is so necessary. Still I hate mexican waves too.
davieG Posted 13 June 2010 Posted 13 June 2010 From Wiki A vuvuzela (English pronunciation: /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/) , sometimes called a "lepatata" (its Setswana name) or a stadium horn, is ablowing horn approximately one meter in length. It is commonly blown by fans at football matches in South Africa. The instrument requires some lip and lung strength to blow and emits a loud monotone (B♭).[1] A similar instrument (known ascorneta in Brazil and other Latin American countries) is used by football fans in South America.[citation needed] Vuvuzelas have been controversial.[2] They have been associated with permanent noise-induced hearing loss,[3] cited as a possible safety risk when spectators can't hear evacuation announcements,[4] and potentially spread colds and flu germs on a greater scale than coughing or shouting.[5][6] Commentators have described the sound as "annoying" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants,"[7] "a deafening swarm of locusts,"[8] "a goat on the way to slaughter"[9] and "a giant hive full of very angry bees."[10] The sound level of the instrument has been measured at 131 dB(A) at the opening of the horn and at 113 dB(A) two metres in front of the opening, both dangerously high levels for unprotected ears.[11] Origin This type of plastic horn or trumpet has been used in Mexican stadiums since the 1970s.[citation needed] Originally made out of tin, the vuvuzela became popular in South Africa in the 1990s. Well-known Kaizer Chiefs FC fan Freddie "Saddam" Maake claims to have invented the vuvuzela by adapting an aluminium version as early as 1965 from a bicycle horn after removing the black rubber to blow with his mouth. He later found it to be too short and joined a pipe to make it longer. Maake has photos of him in the 1970s and 1980s at local South African games and international games in 1992 and 1996 and at the 1998 World Cup in France, holding the aluminium vuvuzela. He says the instrument was banned as authorities ruled it a dangerous weapon, which prompted him to find a plastic company that could manufacture it.[12] In 2001, South Africa-based company Masincedane Sport began to mass-produce a plastic version.[13][14] Neil van Schalkwyk, the co-owner of Masincedane Sport, won the SABKickStart Award in 2001.[15] Vuvuzelas have been said to be based on kudu horn instruments and thus rooted in African history, but this is disputed.[16][13] During the last quarter of a match, supporters blow vuvuzelas frantically in an attempt to "kill off" their opponents.[17][18] The rest - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela
Fosse Boy Posted 13 June 2010 Posted 13 June 2010 I can see the pro-Vuvuzela arguments regarding being part of the culture or whatever (though that's hotly debated) but surely one of the best things about the World Cup is seeing different fan cultures from all over the world expressing their support in their own way? I saw Ghana fans dancing around with drums and trombones today but couldn't hear anything resembling that because the bloody Vuvus just drowned them out.
Fosse Boy Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/14/world-cup-vuvuzela-premier-league
Corky Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 I really hope they don't become the norm over here, the different chants are what makes the atmosphere in England.
Guest Bilo Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 Bet Blackpool and Fulham get involved with them. Don't forget MK Dons. They'll be stocking up their Megastore as we speak. If our club shop gets them in, who's up for buying the lot and burning them in a ceremonial fashion in the car park?
The Doctor Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 Don't forget MK Dons. They'll be stocking up their Megastore as we speak. If our club shop gets them in, who's up for buying the lot and burning them in a ceremonial fashion in the car park? wouldn't getting them banned be a better idea? After all if you buy them all and then burn them the club will just look and think "Those horns have sold well" and order more and try to sell those.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 Just got back from the Spain v Switzerland game and i believe they should be banned worst invention ever.
The Doctor Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 well reading the mockery today Kevin Barclay claims they won't be allowed in at the walkers anyway.
Matt Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 The silence of the Vuvuzela when the 2nd Uruguay goal went in.
Part Of The Crowd Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 Don't forget MK Dons. They'll be stocking up their Megastore as we speak. If our club shop gets them in, who's up for buying the lot and burning them in a ceremonial fashion in the car park? As I've said on my own forum. Anyone that brings on in gets a punch in the crotch.
Fosse Boy Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 As I've said on my own forum. Anyone that brings on in gets a punch in the crotch. +10 "I support a real club, honest" points to you for that remark chap.
samjohnson Posted 16 June 2010 Author Posted 16 June 2010 Apparently they will be banned at the Walkers. Due to the fact they will cause confilct with the away fans. So no annoying droning sounds in Leicester
Hugo Sanchez Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 Apparently they will be banned at the Walkers. Due to the fact they will cause confilct with the away fans. So no annoying droning sounds in Leicester Thank fook, i really would miss listening to the away fans for 90 mins.
Gaffer Posted 16 June 2010 Posted 16 June 2010 The silence of the Vuvuzela when the 2nd Uruguay goal went in. This.
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