This week I have been listening to football fans weeping bitter tears over the Vuvuzela and how much it is spoiling their enjoyment of the world cup.
Two points:
1. Go watch some newsreel footage of any British football match up to the sixties. Every time there's a crowd shot, you'll notice that everyone in the crowd has a very large wooden football rattle (and a wooly bobble-hat, but that's beside the point). No doubt contemporary newsreel audiences in South Africa and then-Rhodesia were cursing those idiots with the rattly things for ruining the atmosphere and giving them headaches. The point is that football culture varies from time to time and place to place, so perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise when you see some of those differences at the World Cup.
2. The Vuvuzela is the very embodiment of the sound of football. Seriously. Whenever people start talking about football, to me it sounds exactly like someone blowing a Vuvuzela for hours on end. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT, EHHHH?
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