The yanks were chanting "BP sucks" at the English on Saturday night.
Don't know hwere the 15 years came from as they wre being used in the very early 1990's when I lived in Swaziland.
As I don't follow the round ball game, I'd rather watch The Great Escape than any soccer match. I do prefer Zulu though!
A week in and to be honest, they don't bother me one bit.
Good for you!I understood this thread was for those of us who do find them annoying.
As is often trumped, football is a game for the people (someone really should tell FIFA that). Just because the tradition in the UK and Ireland is to sing, chant or hurl witty, passionate, apt, tribal, racist, sectarian, xenophobic, homophobic abuse, it doesn't mean that's the same everywhere.
Oh yeah and we can hear all of the above on our TVs everytime we watch a match.
I've been to matches on the continent and they're dull compared to what I'm used to. Rose-tinted glasses and all that.
Me too, and wouldnt in any way say they were dull..
But from what I recall most other world cups have had a handful of teams with chants and songs, most is just silence, Mexican waves and the locals screaming rather than anything co-ordinated.
And the Vuvuzelas are co-ordinated!!
Then we can way back to the days of the rattles and whistles. God they were annoying.
Interesting that you found these to be annoying,and complain about it here yet feel free to tell those who have any objection to the noise to write to the Daily mail!!why dont you write into the Daily mail?
The point is who the hell are we to say our way of watching the one game that has spread out across the world is the best or correct.
You will usually find that if a majority of people find something irritating ,then it propably is, the saying ,if it walks talks like a duck comes to mind..
Soccer is successful because anyone from any background can kick about a ball, empty drinks can, stone, tennis ball, and get a match going. Because for some reason that team you get landed with in your youth suddenly takes up more of your emotion and wellbeing than is rational or logical.
EH, No its just a game..
Maybe the reason why the vuvuzelas only have a relatively recent history at soccer games in SA might have something to do with the oppression and all that stuff which only ended relatively recently.
WHAT!! Talk about patronising!My SAF neighbour would choke on his Vuvuzela if he heard that!I think you will find that the oppression is being tackled ,objected to, in a much more political way and runs much deeper than a horn blowing at a match
I'm just not sure people realise just how patronising they sound complaining about these things. Send in your complaints to the English Daily Mail, that's the place for all that unkempt, uncivilised, if only johnny foreigner could be like us type rants.
Oh dear God, that sums it all up!!
It does indeed sum it all up because it was a joke.
Didn't appear in any way jokey to me!
perhaps Its the way you tell em...
Seems to me that you have missed the point of the initial post, namely the complaint re. the ear splitting drone of boring sound from these mickey mouse bugles.
We all love the usual banter etc.that goes with football matches
Sorry but I must be racist too, as I really hope that all the African teams get knocked out asap so that they mght not go to the rest of the games, and we might hear some real football fans chant and sing and cheer and sigh through the games.
Sorry but I must be racist too, as I really hope that all the African teams get knocked out asap so that they mght not go to the rest of the games, and we might hear some real football fans chant and sing and cheer and sigh through the games.
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