I HATE THEM
As many many many people across the globe seem to agree on so far in the world cup. The constant noise is annoying and, well ANNOYING.
You can not here the actual crowed you can not here the whistle properly and its clear players are having issues with it as well.

Unlike chanting and drumbs etc you get where it comes and goes or the clattering of seats etc this so far every game is just the WHOLE game, non stop.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2010/06/on_air_should_the_vuvuzela_be.html

They could ban it but seems to me South Africa will only label it racist and be a lot of hassle, but its annoying.

People complained about it in the Confederations Cup. Not many people watched this as they did the world cup but you got much of the world watching world cup matches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-rKemC0QI0&feature=related

I love this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTIv06Aqu4Y

Times that by the fact the actual ones are louder and a QUITE A LOT of people have them for 90 minutes - DEAR GOD!


BAN THEM!

I dunno if I am going deaf of if the stations here are drowning them out but I can hardly hear them.

Maybe not caring for football I dont really mind them. I dont get them though. Sure people are excited, but I dont get how excited people could want to make such a noise, on the basis of them doing not much more than give everyone headaches.

My real gripe are the fans not in South Africa that have them. In a football stadium you expect it to be noisy. You dont expect, or want, to be trapped in a metro train carriage with half a dozen fans blowing them.

Also, if what I have heard is true, isnt the Vuv a plastic imitation of a MEXICAN horn, and has only been in production for the last 10 years or so in SA. Its not like a long-standing tradition...

I like them
gives teh games atmosphere & makes you aware the world cup is somwhere new

I was forced to sit through the England - USA game and didnt mind them at all.

Got 5.1? annoyed the hell out of me, lol.

I cant stand them either. They wouldn't be so bad if they were used in shorts bursts or could carry a tune, but the constant drone that you get from them really is ruining the atmosphere of the matches for me.

FIFA has dropped a massive bollock there
i bet they thought theyd get good PR for letting south africans take their vuvuzelas into matches, but now instead everyone except the south africans wants them banned and FIFA cant ban them because the south africans will whinge and FIFA will get blamed for being intolerant of minorities etc and get a bad PR! hahaha its pretty funny youve gotta admit

Agreed they are screwed either way.

On the news just now......

1. They are non stop through all national anthems so far and Media has been pre-prepared/informed about it. Fifa due to the confederations cup had a lot of complaints from media, viewers and players about these things and the noise and did nothing about it.
When national anthems are being played you will here a switch in sound as they switch to another audio source so you can here them. All the horns are actually non stop all the way through them.

So: This for me is even worse, some people are going on that these are a South African tradition etc (which it is not as they have not been around that long) bla bla bla but this for me shows that there is NO respect from people in the crowed and for national anthems it is not on.

2. Some TV channels are noise cancelling the crowd the best they can through a variety of methods. Some around the globe have from the start but others are rolling out what they can to filter the crowd.
What you will or soon will here is a dumbed down crowd noise.

F**cking colonial racists tbh.

Im gonna get me a zela http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/football-player/media/dave_henson_song.mp3

It was the one thing I liked about the england match (certainly wasnt happy about the score) you occsionally could hear the crown singing and chanting and the band playing etc.

That is what team support should be, you can tell who is cheering for who. Not a blanket of noise that yes provides an atmosphere of sorts but you might as well have a pumped sound from a speaker doing the same thing.

Agreed. You get more jeering and noise in football for things like penalties etc and in Rugby you have a lot more respect with silence from the crowd at the right times But in both sports they raise in volume of the crowed, those drumbs and some hooters kicking of now and again, watching the two sides of the crowed change their volume depending on who is doing well or both trying to out do each other is all part of the game.
As I said in any national anthem moment their should be dead silence.

What this world cup has is just a constant noise spam and its annoying. Watching the New Zealand game it was just terrible.

On a side note, Kiwis do not understand the yellow card for taking your shirt of rule, lol, bless them.

Just watch more matches and you get used to it, Ive been watching 3 a day and have tuned it out, infact I start going VRRRRVVVV VV  V V V VRRRR doing the noise to annoy the missus during the quieter bits

Everyone has a mute button, the ITV pundits are crap anyway  :puke: