Please South Africa...

[overseas shrimper]

Please, I beg of you... please dispense with those bloomin' horns obviously handed out to supporters to generate what they mistake as atmosphere. These horns plague every minute of every match of the Confederations Cup. They create an incessant drone that sounds like a swarm of angry hornets have found their way into my TV set and I cannot get them out.

Am I the only one that has noticed this and finds it extremely annoying? It has gotten to the point whereby I am very tempted to mute the set, but who wants to watch a game in silence?

 

[Pubey]

it's awful, i watched the highlights on the BBC website yesterday and it's really annoying!

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

but who wants to watch a game in silence?

Just where is Colchester & proud when needed :whistling:

 

[canveyshrimper]

Just where is Colchester & proud when needed :whistling:

:D Or Mr Stokes.

It reminds me of Mexico 86 where there was a similar distracting background noise. And then came the ****ing Mexican ****ing wave. :madman:

 

[overseas shrimper]

:D Or Mr Stokes.

It reminds me of Mexico 86 where there was a similar distracting background noise. And then came the ****ing Mexican ****ing wave. :madman:

I wish it were background bloody noise.

I heard that in S.A. there will be a static version of the Mexican Wave where everyone in the stadium just stands and holds their hands in the air. They're calling it the South African Hold Up.

 

[SUFC_Al]

I agree OS, they are very annoying indeed. I'm all for creating an atmosphere but an atmosphere that doesn't sound so blooming horrible!

 

[EastStandBlue]

I think it's only fair the host nation embraces their culture at the tournament.

At Euro '96, I was only 8, but thoroughly enjoyed smashing a few Krauts and Surrender Monkeys in London back streets both before and after games. Let them have their horns.

 

[overseas shrimper]

I think it's only fair the host nation embraces their culture at the tournament.

I doubt South Africa's culture involves 90 + minutes of mass horn blowing. Or maybe the movie Zulu was incredibly inaccurate by not having tens of thousands of Zulu warriors appear over the horizon at Rorke's Drift blowing bloody horns until the Brits surrendered under their sheer annoyance.

No, I plead with S.A. once more... stop these bloomin' horns.

 

[Manchester Shrimper]

I doubt South Africa's culture involves 90 + minutes of mass horn blowing. Or maybe the movie Zulu was incredibly inaccurate by not having tens of thousands of Zulu warriors appear over the horizon at Rorke's Drift blowing bloody horns until the Brits surrendered under their sheer annoyance.

No, I plead with S.A. once more... stop these bloomin' horns.

I can't remember who was commentating, but the commentator for one of the games on the BBC was saying that the horns were a traditional African instrument and he went on to say 'they say the sound of one can kill a baboon... I can only think the baboon topped itself after getting so irritated by the sound.'

It's weird though cos after watching the Lions on Saturday, it seems that it's unique to football over there.

I hope they're not going to blight the World Cup next year- I find the airhorns that seem to come out for England games bad enough, those South African horns are something else.