Posted on 06/14/2010 10:49:11 AM PDT by C19fan
Football's governing FIFA sprang to the defence of the much-maligned vuvuzela Monday with president Joseph Blatter ruling out the favourite accessory of South African football fans being banned at the World Cup.
Writing on his new twitter feed SeppBlatter, Blatter said: 'To answer all your messages (regarding) the vuvuzelas. I have always said that Africa has a different rhythm, a different sound.'
'I don't see banning the music traditions of fans in their own country. Would you want to see a ban on the fan traditions in your country?'
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The only people that like those horns play Scrabble!
A month of that will be very irritating.
A month? You mean this tripe goes on for a whole MONTH?
>> A month of that will be very irritating.
Only if you listen to it.
I didn’t think it was possible to make soccer any more pointless and annoying, but low and behold, they proved me wrong!
** Rhymes with a female body part alert **
Van Schalkwyk, whose Cape Town-based company Masincedane Sports, has been making vuvuzelas since the late 1990s
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I see...it’s an age old South African tradition...all the way from the ‘90’s. As if soccer wasn’t already unwatchable those idiots blowing the horns make it completely unbearable.
What a dork. This isn’t an African thing, those stupid horns have been screwing up international sports (especially soccer) for a few years now. Ban them already, or watch your sport lose TV audience.
Okay then. How about a compromise? In the matches where South Africa is one of the teams, they will be allowed. Im an all others they are banned.
Regarding the snide comment about it being part of the culture; many of the reported rapes in S Africa are men who rape underage girls, in the mistaken belief that sex with a virgin will cure aids. Now would anyone condone this sick and twisted South African tradition? This is one of the reasons soccer is such a laughing stock.
Kiss your TV audience goodbye..
Those of us, and there are millions, who enjoy football (soccer to you) look forward to this every four years.
After a couple of weeks perhaps we will be used to the horns. :)
Mulva is that you?
“Vuvuzelas”? It sounds like the instruments from the Grinch.
Since the sound and the pitch never vary couldn’t it be filtered out on the broadcasts?
Darn. I hate those things.
To bad all the matches can’t end up 0-0. Then every team would get a prize!
That was the plan, but the goalies are so bad, they have let a few goals in...
Yeah. How would the UK like it if FIFA banned drunken brawls at their games?
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