Vuvuzelas are here!

[Fido]

I don't believe it. Just settled down to watch a bit of cricket - 20/20 AussiesV Pakistan at Edgebaston. And what do I hear? Those bloody vuvuzelas greeting each piece of action.

Surely not! Won't someone do something about this menace? It's just not cricket chaps. Where next? Snooker?

 

[N_Architect]

Where next? Snooker?

I wouldn't be surprised, Peter. But they wouldn't dare let them into the Crucible, would they?

 

[Smell The Glove]

The football teams up here are selling them in the club shops for the new season.

Do you want me to get you one Fido?

Just a passing fad I'm sure.

 

[Swivel]

I'm sure the'll make an appearance in the premiership next season..............can't wait :roll:

 

[Fido]

I'll take two of my biggest handbells to Fratton Park and drown out the lot of 'em.

 

[hunnymonster]

I'll take two of my biggest handbells to Fratton Park and drown out the lot of 'em.

I'd have thought so - is there still a team to actually play?

 

[joe mcclaine]

I'll take two of my biggest handbells to Fratton Park and drown out the lot of 'em.

Don't do it - you already have one nutter doing that and he isn't as 'jolly' as he appears on the telly, in fact I'm surprised he doesn't clang when he walks.

 

[Fido]

He's crazy that bell man - but he's loyal - all over the country, he's there.

 

[Pig Cat]

I'd never heard of this eccentric fellow until now. I found this short film about him that is very good, even for a non-football fan like me:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31KuuC3MFRs[/youtube]

 

[Fido]

Everyone just has to watch this the whole way through!

Thank you so much for finding this. It really does capture the spirit of an enthusiast. What is an eccentric? - here is at least one true example. And I bet he wouldn't swop with anyone.
I just loved the phone call at the end.

 

[Pig Cat]

So pleased you like it! You can't help but like the guy. I found it sad to hear that he has been chucked out of some matches.

 

[Smell The Glove]

What a hat!

I wouldn't want to be the poor sod who has to sit behind him in the stadium every other week.

 

[Damian Murphy]

I enjoyed that , nice one PigCat.

 

[joe mcclaine]

I spent a rather unpleasant couple of hours in his company in a hotel bar just outside Marseilles.

Might have been the drink, but first impressions and all that.

 

[slash]

Had the misfortune to spend an hour in his company as well..Mad as a hatter but could do with a wash.. :shock:

 

[Fido]

I don't believe it. Just settled down to watch a bit of cricket - 20/20 AussiesV Pakistan at Edgebaston. And what do I hear? Those bloody vuvuzelas greeting each piece of action.

Surely not! Won't someone do something about this menace? It's just not cricket chaps. Where next? Snooker?

Phew! England v Bangladesh and not a vuvuzela to be heard. Nor at Le Tour - yet?