FIFA ban vuvuzelas

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James212

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FIFA have apparently banned vuvuzelas from World Cup stadiums, which is either a rare sensible decision or another sign that they want every bit of chaos scrubbed out of the tournament. On one hand, nobody wants 90 minutes of that noise in their ear. On the other, it does feel like FIFA are always happy to police the small stuff while making a complete mess of everything else.

There’s already plenty of chat about whistles, chants, water bottles and even the general direction the tournament is going in, so this has kicked off the usual “game’s gone” debate. Personally I can see both sides, but it does feel a bit mad that this is where they’ve drawn the line. What do you lot make of it?
 
They'll ban vuvuzelas and act like theyve saved civilisation while the rest of the tournament is turning into a corporate circus with ticket prices, adverts everywhere, no water bottles, half time nonsense and whatever other garbage they decide to force on people next and then when fans complain they'll do the usual FIFA thing of pretending its all for safety and the match experience when really they just want a sanitised event full of rich pricks who clap politely and leave early and the officials will still somehow manage to make a mess of the football anyway
 
There is a reasonable argument that some of these noisemakers make the game harder to enjoy for everyone else, and if FIFA wanted to clamp down on them in isolation you could at least understand the logic. But the problem is they never seem to stop at one sensible rule, do they, they turn every decision into another layer of control and then act shocked when people say the whole thing feels soulless. It always starts with one ban and ends with corporate seating, overpriced everything and some bizarre theatre at half time like the whole event is being designed by people who have never watched football for longer than ten minutes and that is why everyone is already furious
 
Honestly this is just FIFA being FIFA isnt it one minute they are pretending to care about the fan experience and the next they are banning vuvuzelas like that is the big problem with the world cup while the rest of the tournament is a complete mess anyway with all the corporate nonsense and the water bottle stuff and the ticket prices and whatever weird show they want to cram in at half time and they always go for the easiest target because banning a plastic horn is simpler than fixing anything real and people will still be sat there paying through the nose while being told to enjoy the spectacle and i swear if they keep stripping everything away until its just silence and adverts then they can piss right off
 
On paper it is a pretty small decision and if you are someone who hated the noise then fair enough, you probably see this as a win. But it also fits a much bigger pattern where every bit of atmosphere gets treated like a nuisance unless it is perfectly controlled and monetised, and that is what annoys people. It is never just about vuvuzelas, is it, it is the water bottles, the prices, the stupid corporate stuff, the constant feeling that football is being turned into a product for people who do not even like football and honestly the whole thing makes my blood boil because they keep taking the soul out of it bit by bit
 
They act like theyve solved football with this while the actual tournament keeps getting more plastic and more expensive every year and somehow the noise from a crowd is the thing they pick on, absolute joke really
 
I know everyone likes to pile on the vuvuzelas but I genuinely do not think they were the villain of the 2010 World Cup that people make them out to be, they were part of the atmosphere and part of the culture and once FIFA start banning that kind of thing it just feels like another step towards sanitising everything until it is some soulless corporate product where nobody can express themselves and every seat is filled by some suit on an expense account while the actual fans get priced out and told to be quiet, and yes the noise could be annoying but football is meant to be noisy and messy and alive and not just some polished TV package for people who want the same bland experience every time
 
I get why some people are happy about it but acting like this is some heroic stand for football is a bit much, FIFA have just picked the easiest possible target and everyone is cheering because it lets them ignore the bigger nonsense around the tournament and that is exactly why they get away with it every time
 
It is funny how quickly people can call this a victory when there are so many other issues around the tournament. The vuvuzelas are annoying to some, sure, but FIFA rarely makes a small decision without making the wider picture worse imo
 
If I was the player getting blamed for every bad atmosphere in football I would be fuming because the real issue is that FIFA and these tournament organisers keep turning everything into a sterile little showcase and then act like banning one noisy fan item is progress and people lap it up and say job done when the actual matchday experience keeps getting worse and worse and the same clowns who made the mess get praised for cleaning it up and it drives me absolutely mad because it is always the players or the fans who are told to adjust while the people in charge never do a damn thing
 
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