Will John Leicester shut up already? In his AP column, he says: “The constant drone of cheap and tuneless plastic horns is killing the atmosphere of the World Cup.”
What he fails to get is that the vuvuzela is the atmosphere at the World Cup!
Clearly Argentina and Germany had no problems with the sound…
Talk about cultural bias.
This is what the World Cup is all about – local sounds, local color, and global football. Go SA!
The World Cup and the vuvuzela has also united South Africa in a way that is healing the nation. Listen to Clive Barker, coach of the 1996 Bafana Bafana squad:
“…today, I was walking around and I saw black and white wearing the Bafana jersey blowing a vuvuzela. For me, that was moving. It was then that I felt that this was genuinely an opportunity to heal this country and mark a new dawn in our history.”
Now where can I get my own vuvuzela?
How about you shut up? He’s expressing an opinion shared by millions.
Danny Jordan said it best: songs are way better. South Africans sang songs during their struggle and during the 1995 rugby world cup. And when someone like Jordan publicly says he dislikes the way his own people cheer in the world cup he helped organize, it means a lot.
Vuvuzelas create a BAD atmosphere. The worst WC stadium atmosphere ever, without a doubt. Collectively they omit a bad tuneless noise that isn’t consistent with what’s happenning on tbe pitch and the emotions of the crowd. Same noise all the time.
I want real African songs. Screw the vuvuzela.