Sky Sports cricket expert David "Bumble" Lloyd explains why vuvuzelas have spoiled his World Cup.
Vuvuzelas are driving Bumble mad - do you agree?
The World Cup is less than a week old - and there's no doubt what the big talking point has been so far.
The sound of the vuvuzela has got people talking as much as the football - and the plastic South African horns have certainly divided opinion.
Broadcasters have been inundated with complaints about the noise of the instruments and in a poll of 13,000 skysports.com readers more than 62% said they should be banned.
But FIFA president Sepp Blatter insists they are part of "fan tradition" and will not be removed from grounds.
Sky Sports cricket commentator David "Bumble" Lloyd says his enjoyment has been ruined by the horns and has spent the last few days debating the topic with football fans around the world on his Twitter page.
Bumble has more than 71,000 Twitter followers and the arguments have been raging ever since the World Cup kicked off.
And in a special blog for the Sky Sports World Cup website, Bumble explains why he's had enough of the vuvuzela...
My business is cricket, but my passion is football.
And my passion has been spoiled because every time I've watched a match at the World Cup I've been driven mad by what sounds like a swarm of buzzing mosquitos.
I don't want to watch the World Cup with ear-plugs in. It's time something was done about these vuvuzelas.
The other night I went into the pub where the landlord was getting ready to show the World Cup. There was a huge screen, food was being served and there was all the rest of the excitement you'd associate with a World Cup.
The pub was full of ordinary Mr Blokes and they were all asking him to turn the sound down because they can't deal with the incessant noise.
They've banned instruments that play music, but they let these things in that don't even have a tune. I don't understand it.
A disaster
When watching the games from overseas, it's an absolute disaster.
South African people are saying it's their culture and their World Cup, but I disagree. It's a "World" Cup - and it just happens to be in South Africa.
I want to hear the different supporters from the different countries around the world. I want to hear how they react to a goal or a penalty miss or a sending off.
But there's no emotion. It's just the same noise all the way through.
There have been some Pommy-bashers who've told me that it's a good job they can't hear the moronic insults and racist chanting.
Of course, if that sort of thing goes on then the perpetrators should be chucked out. But if that's what you're listening for at home, that's really sad.
Nonsense
I'd like to appeal to the intelligence of the people in the grounds. These horns are a nonsense. Whatever next? Fifty-thousand people blowing a whistle for 90 minutes?
I'm not saying that this is purely South African. There's obviously other fans who get hold of a vuvuzela and think it's great.
Maybe it is great in the ground? I'm not there, so I don't know. What I do know is it's spoiling it for everybody watching on TV around the world.
Somebody came on and said: "Who cares about TV viewers?" Well pal, TV viewers are paying the rent. Where do you think the money for the World Cup's coming from?
I've no doubt I'll get an avalanche of criticism about this - and I already have done on my Twitter page.
Well don't listen to me - listen to everybody else. I've heard from blokes of all nationalities who can't watch any more.
Read people on Twitter from all over the world. Read the international press. Read what the teams themselves think about it.
Look at the Dutch national team. Despite the Netherlands' strong historic ties with South Africa, the Dutch have banned vuvuzelas from their practice matches because the coach can't get his points across.
What culture?
The only people that seem to support these things are people from South Africa - and their argument is that it's part of their culture.
So let me get this right. Your culture is standing there with a plastic pipe and blowing into it? That's your culture is it?
Sorry, I'm not having that. It's not tradition and it's not culture.
I've been to South Africa loads of times, but people are now telling me I don't understand the culture because I've never been to a football match there.
Well I went on the Orlando Pirates website and it seems not many other people have either. They get between 5,000 and 10,000 spectators turning up to their games - which is like a Second Division match in England.
So I don't see how you can argue it's a big part of the culture. This is an event for the world - not for the 5,000 people who turn up to watch a South African football team every week.
They don't have vuvuzelas in cricket or rugby, it's exclusive to football. But if they feel the need to blow them, can't they just leave it to the African Nations Cup? This is a world event and you're driving everybody barking mad.
And if it really is your culture... isn't it time to think of something else?
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