I have to be ruthless! If I were hosting a World Cup in my backyard, I would be so jacked to do everything to annoy the hell out of the visitors and give my homies every advantage possible.
That's home field advantage, Holmes. This is why the U.S. team goes down to Honduras and has every pot and pan in town banged out their hotel window to ensure the team gets no sleep before their qualifier match. This is why they light flares and set off bombs in Rome's Stadio Olimpico or drop piss bags in the Stadio Meazza.
Cry me a river if visiting countries don't like it. Boo hoo. You won't see Liverpool canceling their "You'll Never Walk Alone" singalongs. You won't find fans of the Mexico NT holding off on wearing their Osama Bin Laden masks when the U.S. comes to town.
Is this really that hard to understand?
If you don't like it, that's all the more reason for them to do it. Home rules. Visitors have to put up with it and not hide behind some pantywaist bureaucrats telling them they have to behave like schoolchildren.
They're a recent phenom for other sports like rugby union, but they started with soccer in South Africa.
Fine, if every match is SA vs another team but its not its THE WORLD CUP. It is unfair to players, the officials, the coaches, the other fans, the viewers at home, the commentators. When you host a world event, you have to accommodate the world, its fucking pathetic and childish that no one will make a stand and tell them to fuck off with it.
Fine, if every match is SA vs another team but its not its THE WORLD CUP. It is unfair to players, the officials, the coaches, the other fans, the viewers at home, the commentators. When you host a world event, you have to accommodate the world, its fucking pathetic and childish that no one will make a stand and tell them to fuck off with it.
Seriously. If public safety were compromised because of someone tossing flares or bombs, that's one thing. But oh -- "A bunch of fans are blowing horns. And oh my God -- one of them could be used as a weapon!!! " Call out a NATO air strike.
Let's not forget that South Africa even had to suspend their constitution around the games to accommodate the world and FIFA. South African laws against searches, seizures, and discrimination are extremely liberal after suffering so long under apartheid. FIFA had to get special dispensation where these constitutional protections were suspended by South Africa for FIFA security requests and practices.
Talk about accommodating the world. But instead what we get are a bunch of whiners who say, "Don't blow a horn at the stadium" as if it were some criminal law even in their own countries.
At every world cup you have to put up with the cultural activities of the home side. In 2002 we had to listen to the incessant singing of the Koreans and Japanese. If the South Africans want to blow horns at their World Cup, we have no right to stop them.
At every world cup you have to put up with the cultural activities of the home side. In 2002 we had to listen to the incessant singing of the Koreans and Japanese.
the thing is with the horns, that there is nothing interesting about it. no emotion behind it. fans singings or chantings or booing shows passion. dumb ass fans blowing horns at everything is just plain stupid and annoying.
during the laughing stock vs usa match the "usa usa" chants of the crowds were deafened by the horns. fucking stupid
brb blowing my horn non stop at everything. good job you faggots.
That's home field advantage, Holmes. This is why the U.S. team goes down to Honduras and has every pot and pan in town banged out their hotel window to ensure the team gets no sleep before their qualifier match. This is why they light flares and set off bombs in Rome's Stadio Olimpico or drop piss bags in the Stadio Meazza.
Cry me a river if visiting countries don't like it. Boo hoo. You won't see Liverpool canceling their "You'll Never Walk Alone" singalongs. You won't find fans of the Mexico NT holding off on wearing their Osama Bin Laden masks when the U.S. comes to town.
Is this really that hard to understand?
If you don't like it, that's all the more reason for them to do it. Home rules. Visitors have to put up with it and not hide behind some pantywaist bureaucrats telling them they have to behave like schoolchildren.
They're a recent phenom for other sports like rugby union, but they started with soccer in South Africa.
That's home field advantage, Holmes. This is why the U.S. team goes down to Honduras and has every pot and pan in town banged out their hotel window to ensure the team gets no sleep before their qualifier match. This is why they light flares and set off bombs in Rome's Stadio Olimpico or drop piss bags in the Stadio Meazza.
Cry me a river if visiting countries don't like it. Boo hoo. You won't see Liverpool canceling their "You'll Never Walk Alone" singalongs. You won't find fans of the Mexico NT holding off on wearing their Osama Bin Laden masks when the U.S. comes to town.
Is this really that hard to understand?
If you don't like it, that's all the more reason for them to do it. Home rules. Visitors have to put up with it and not hide behind some pantywaist bureaucrats telling them they have to behave like schoolchildren.
They're a recent phenom for other sports like rugby union, but they started with soccer in South Africa.
I understand all that, greg, and I agree with that very much. But if Germany play Australia or South Korea play Greece, why are the vuvuzelas there too? I think it would be a nice attribute for the South Africans and it would be far more special if they only did it during their games, it would actually be impressive.
The things Greg mention are not ears fucking pain and doesn't ruin your enjoyment for the game. But what those clowns are doing there is just a pain to the head.
I'm okay with any chant be it, Cinderella Ragazzi make me Nutella Lavezzi or anything but not this. It's really stupid.
I understand all that, greg, and I agree with that very much. But if Germany play Australia or South Korea play Greece, why are the vuvuzelas there too? I think it would be a nice attribute for the South Africans and it would be far more special if they only did it during their games, it would actually be impressive.
Because if I'm hosting the party and I'm asked to spend the European equivalent of €200 to attend, why should I have to change my behavior and sit and act like I'm some freaking Norwegian at the match?
Good luck telling those Brazilians in 2014 to dress in more formal clothing and to not bang drums and whistle at matches.