Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
16-06-2010, 20:12
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Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tenn...on/8744027.stm
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Tennis fans have been banned from bringing vuvuzelas to Wimbledon.
The plastic horns, popular with football fans at the football World Cup in South Africa, have been selling fast across Britain in the last week.
But the All England Club has insisted they would be banned, adding: "The message is not to bring them.
"We have a list of prohibited items, including rattles and klaxons and vuvuzelas will fall into that category so the message is not to bring them."
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So everyone can relax..Well until Murray loses. 
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16-06-2010, 21:03
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
Excellent
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16-06-2010, 21:05
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
if only Cliff Richard was added to the list.
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16-06-2010, 21:25
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
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if only Cliff Richard was added to the list.
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Maybe there could be a good use for the vuvuzelas.
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16-06-2010, 21:49
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
It a shame they could use them when it rains for the 2 weeks the tornament is on.
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16-06-2010, 21:54
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
That'll be another slow news day then. For the uninitiated, here's how it works:
1. Nobody at Wimbledon has given any thought whatsoever to the subject of Vuvuzelas.
2. Some bored hack (in this case at the BBC website) has some column inches to fill.
3. He scratches his head and wonders what's topical.
4. He notices the super soaraway Sun is giving a Vuvuzelas away with every copy of the paper today.
5. He decides to phone the All England and ask them if they're going to ban Vuvuzelas.
6. Wimbledon points out that it already has rules about noisy items being brought in.
7. Hey presto, Wimbledon is 'cracking down' on Vuvuzelas.
Nothing to see here. 
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16-06-2010, 23:26
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
Yay a 461 Hz free zone.
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16-06-2010, 23:59
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
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Originally Posted by Chris
That'll be another slow news day then. For the uninitiated, here's how it works:
1. Nobody at Wimbledon has given any thought whatsoever to the subject of Vuvuzelas.
2. Some bored hack (in this case at the BBC website) has some column inches to fill.
3. He scratches his head and wonders what's topical.
4. He notices the super soaraway Sun is giving a Vuvuzelas away with every copy of the paper today.
5. He decides to phone the All England and ask them if they're going to ban Vuvuzelas.
6. Wimbledon points out that it already has rules about noisy items being brought in.
7. Hey presto, Wimbledon is 'cracking down' on Vuvuzelas.
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I'm looking forward to the first "Funeral director cracks down on vuvuzelas" story.
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17-06-2010, 09:08
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
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Originally Posted by Chris
That'll be another slow news day then. For the uninitiated, here's how it works:
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7. Hey presto, Wimbledon is 'cracking down' on Vuvuzelas.
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It will be Lords next
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17-06-2010, 09:11
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
Hmmm, Vuvuzela's or Inflatable Banana's at Eastlands... Come back Bananas all is forgiven!!!
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17-06-2010, 09:17
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
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Originally Posted by Chris
That'll be another slow news day then. For the uninitiated, here's how it works:
1. Nobody at Wimbledon has given any thought whatsoever to the subject of Vuvuzelas.
2. Some bored hack (in this case at the BBC website) has some column inches to fill.
3. He scratches his head and wonders what's topical.
4. He notices the super soaraway Sun is giving a Vuvuzelas away with every copy of the paper today.
5. He decides to phone the All England and ask them if they're going to ban Vuvuzelas.
6. Wimbledon points out that it already has rules about noisy items being brought in.
7. Hey presto, Wimbledon is 'cracking down' on Vuvuzelas.
Nothing to see here. |
At least it wasn't the Mail.. They'd be hyping up the fact the instruments are from South Africa, and writing an article about how upstanding English instruments (such as the trumpet) are being replaced by these "immigrants".
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17-06-2010, 13:47
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
Kids (and big kids) are using them at all times of day and night here 
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17-06-2010, 15:20
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Re: Wimbledon crackdown on vuvuzelas
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
At least it wasn't the Mail.. They'd be hyping up the fact the instruments are from South Africa, and writing an article about how upstanding English instruments (such as the trumpet) are being replaced by these "immigrants".
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Good thing it wasn't the Star... That would have had a topless model holding it accompanied to the headline "I've got the horn"
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