What are your opinions on using them?
Personally I think it's arrogant to ask for banning them, but I feel the need to state that they are very annoying and currently are top of my list of things that might ruin the world cup experience. I don't mind if they are heard for brief moments, but it sounds like people are blowing these things for 90 whole minutes and it almost mutes the usual atmosphere we're used to in football matches.
I still can't wrap my head over the fact that people are paying loads of money to get tickets for the world cup only to blow a plastic trumpet for 90 minutes instead of cheering for their team or simply focusing on the football on the pitch in a once in 4 years occasion.
Also, what's with this crap that the "Vuvuzela is part of South African culture"? It certainly is not. It's just one of those things that gained popularity recently and people stuck with it and labeled it as part of their culture and a symbol of South Africa. If there are any South Africans on this forum, please correct me on this if I'm wrong.
I don't mind them being used when the local team is playing, but why are other fans forced to hear that giant beehive sound for 90 minutes in a match between, say, England and USA?
Let's hope this world cup will not be remembered as the "one with the annoying plastic trumpets".
Thoughts?
Personally I think it's arrogant to ask for banning them, but I feel the need to state that they are very annoying and currently are top of my list of things that might ruin the world cup experience. I don't mind if they are heard for brief moments, but it sounds like people are blowing these things for 90 whole minutes and it almost mutes the usual atmosphere we're used to in football matches.
I still can't wrap my head over the fact that people are paying loads of money to get tickets for the world cup only to blow a plastic trumpet for 90 minutes instead of cheering for their team or simply focusing on the football on the pitch in a once in 4 years occasion.
Also, what's with this crap that the "Vuvuzela is part of South African culture"? It certainly is not. It's just one of those things that gained popularity recently and people stuck with it and labeled it as part of their culture and a symbol of South Africa. If there are any South Africans on this forum, please correct me on this if I'm wrong.
I don't mind them being used when the local team is playing, but why are other fans forced to hear that giant beehive sound for 90 minutes in a match between, say, England and USA?
Let's hope this world cup will not be remembered as the "one with the annoying plastic trumpets".
Thoughts?