Shove your vuvuzelas up your arse

[Archie's penalty]

They could be getting banned, I really hope so.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 737455.stm

Not living up to your username there mate.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

It's not all that different to Euro '88, where much of each game was drowned out by thousands of air-horns.

[buzzby]

They could be getting banned, I really hope so.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 737455.stm

Not living up to your username there mate.

[RG30]

The things are made out of plastic and have nothing to do with historical South African culture.

If you knew what you were going on about,then you would no they have a historical context in South African football.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I oxf*rd hate the oxf*rd things. oxf*rd off plastics with your annoying oxf*rd trumpets, bunch of oxf*rd oxf*rd

LOL and agree m9

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I oxf*rd hate the oxf*rd things. oxf*rd off plastics with your annoying oxf*rd trumpets, bunch of oxf*rd oxf*rd

why not have grown up sophisticated rumblestix instead?..or a pants day?....we need a more mature mature approach when watching 22 blokes kick around an inflated pigs bladder.

shut up bruv

[paultheroyal]

Any talk of banning them is complete nonsense. Their culture, their world cup, put up with it or turn the tv to mute and make your own noise.

[Allyh84]

Ridiculous.

Hold a World Cup in Africa and then try to stop their fans expressing themselves through their culture. What's the point in holding a World Cup in Africa if you stop them being who they are. Part of a World Cup is about a country's culture. From what I have read, the South Africans have been nothing but friendly and courteous hosts, why on earth would anyone stop them being who they are?

If you are so bothered about vuvuzelas, you obviously aren't watching the game very hard. It just blends into the background after I get into watching a match. Why don't you watch it on mute?

[Royal With Cheese]

If you are so bothered about vuvuzelas, you obviously aren't watching the game very hard. It just blends into the background after I get into watching a match. Why don't you watch it on mute?

With the added bonus of not having to listen to either Clive Tydsley or Andy Townsend.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

BAN THEM

[havoc]

Put it this way. If it was Asian or American armchair fans complaining about fans at English league games chanting or whatever, we'd tell them to oxf*rd off. Ergo, people complaining about these, can oxf*rd off.

'greed

[Terminal Boardom]

At least it drowns out the moronic chanting

[brizzle royal]

I went to South Africa and managed to see SA v Zimbabwe. What a treat. What an atmosphere from about 25000 in the new stadium in Durban. If you saw the conditions that ahuge number of these fans live and work in then you would let them enjoy themselves any way they can. If all you have to worry about is the noise on your flat screen tv while you enjoy a cold beer I have only one suggestion-- turn the sound down!

[PlasticRoyale]

I went to South Africa and managed to see SA v Zimbabwe. What a treat. What an atmosphere from about 25000 in the new stadium in Durban. If you saw the conditions that ahuge number of these fans live and work in then you would let them enjoy themselves any way they can. If all you have to worry about is the noise on your flat screen tv while you enjoy a cold beer I have only one suggestion-- turn the sound down!

Were the other 9 posts as 'look at me' as that

[brizzle royal]

Just posting as someone who isnt just aware of the world from my chair in front of the telly

[BobKnows]

Anyone who says that that drone is "equal" to any kind of chanting is having a gigantic LOL. Agreed we can't tell the supporters how to act, but you're both tone deaf and stupid if you think it adds up to atmosphere.

[brendywendy]

couldn't hear the england supporters band so not all bad news....

What's wrong with the band? Providing support for the team that no other country does?

cos they are cnuts, and suck the life out of any crowd. plus they play teh great escape almost constantly, even when weve not escaped from owt.

[Hoop Blah]

The things are made out of plastic and have nothing to do with historical South African culture.

If you knew what you were going on about,then you would no they have a historical context in South African football.

What is it then?

From what I've heard they're quite a new thing, would love to be educated though RG.

...for the record I hate the bloody noise!

[PlasticRoyale]

Just posting as someone who isnt just aware of the world from my chair in front of the telly

rIGHT on brother!

[prostak]

Thank God for the media companies eh? Fighting the corner for the downtrodden, voiceless television markets of Europe.
Vuvuzela is of course in no way a long-standing tradition of SA but it's the current fashion, just as those terrifying bendy kite men things were in Japan. Don't award a nation hosting rights on the back of boosting national pride, only to insist they work to strict, European guidelines. For the most part this whining's not borne of a colonial attitude, but it certainly has much in common with one.