So, you’re French, then?
Since I don’t watch “the Football”, I have no idea what you’re talking about. However, I am confident that whatever the buzzing is like, it simply can NOT be worse than air horn choruses.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention : I live a few blocks down from *the *big Parisian soccer stadium. Go on, ask me about my love for drunk footie fans at 2AM and their FUCKING horns. You ever hear of nerd rage ? That’s nothing compared to the frothing 2AM air horn berserk state of yours truly.
One day, I swear to Aisha, I’m going to axe murder one of those motherfuckers and hang his bloody remains in various corners of the city pour encourager les autres.
Nope. I understand soccer fine and it is still boring. And the fake being hurt routine is over the top and annoys the crap out of me, some of these guys act like they have just been tased, but that’s another subject for another day.
Without googling, can you summarize a 3-5-2 vs a 4-4-2 in a couple sentences?
Hey, soccer provides an essential service. How else are we to decide what is the greatest country on earth? Mexico or Portugal?
Dude: tequila, tacos and funny hats. What else do you need? A certificate?
Hate 'em. I was mildly interested when I first heard of them. So I tuned in for the opener and. . . what’s that noise? Is that it? That pathetic buzzing? I expected it to be a masculine trumpeting, or a mysterious didgeridoo-like drone. Nope. It’s a fucking kazoo. Okay, fine. I’m not planning on watching any South Africa games besides the opener so whatever. But noooo, apparently they’re selling these things for a buck a pop and convincing the drunken fans that not blowing on them for ninety minutes straight makes you some sort of white supremacist. For the love of the game shut the fuck up!
It’ll be interesting to see if the media PsTB put a blanket ban on those fucking annoying gizmos as people indeed start switching the telly off. The point of such events as the World Cup are to attract not only the die-hard footy fans but the other 6 billion or so who wouldn’t normally give much of a toss, but because it’s the World Cup and all etc.
The Bloke (who doesn’t follow soccer at all) got up the other morning to watch the first match live, and has vowed to boycott the rest of the series because of that damnable noise. I saw just a newsclip and that was enough to give me the screaming shits.
We’ll see whether the thingumajigs make it through to the finals. I’d put my money on NOT. 
Vuvuzela… fun to say! Sounds like an Italian word for a female body part.
Since a large chunk of the tickets have been sold to South Africans, there will be vuvuzelas at every match.
Football relies far more on its finances on tv rights and world broadcast than it doens on some juvenile attention seeking native who happend to luck into a couple of discounted world cup tickets that they couldn’t sell at full price to someone from one of the football first worlders.
There has been some discussion about the banning of these horns, but that’s merely to placate audiences in the hope they will get used to the noise.
All spectators are consumers, including the vast majority tv viewers, FIFA would be very well advised to bear that in mind and kick these fucking noise boxes out.
I sort of said it upthread, but you said it much better casdave. 
This sort of shit happens at soccer matches because they are boring. Same as cricket. The crowd doesn’t have much to do so it finds its own entertainment. It’s all very well talking about how interesting it is if you have some sort of deep understanding, and no doubt there is a percentage of the crowd that has that deep understanding. But if it’s boring as fuck for most of the average punters, they find some way to participate outside of just watching.
“juvenile attention seeking native”, thats some high class first world language right there you fucking rooinek*.
*Rooinek is afrikaans for red neck, an insulting term given to British soldiers who would turn bright red at the merest hint of South African sun and then die uselessly when fighting the Boers. Technicaly applies to me and my ancestors but far more suited to casdave in this case.
Yep. I’m actually a baseball guy first, but my experience in deepening my understanding (increasing my appreciation) of baseball over the years–and the corollary awareness of just how much of baseball is missed by people who don’t get it–has taught me that the sports I find boring, at first glance, probably have a lot more going on than I realize.
What the “football is boring” contingent are missing, is that at any time something boring is seeming to be not happening, there is always the possibility of that one piece of dazzling brilliance that can change the outcome of a game.
Wow.
Anyway, how dare those third world natives not bow to the whims of the superior first-world football culture! Don’t they understand they are worthless next to our money? Why, in my day we didn’t even let them in the same stadium!
I’m not missing that point. When watching grass grow there is always the chance that a meteor may fall from the sky right in front of you, which would be interesting. That doesn’t make it less dull most of the time.
Be reasonable. Unless you are watching the average US footballer, the chances of the game being livened up by a meteor strike, are far less than those of seeing a moment of dazzling brilliance by a RestOfTheWorld player. 
Blimey! They’ve got their work cut out if they try to ban these things.