From Coady to Klopp the game’s true voice can be captured by switching off the canned chants and cheers on television
Please do not rush there right now, but there is a video on YouTube consisting of eight hours of vacuum cleaner noise. It has been viewed, or listened to, more than 10 million times. Apparently people find it soothing, the logic being that a monotonous drone shields sensitive souls from the shock of unexpected sounds. There is little scientific support for this theory and no academic has confirmed publicly that it explains Steve McManaman’s commentary career, but we can probably say, if only because anyone likely to object will not hear us, that it is for similar reasons that some folks choose to watch matches these days with canned chants and cheers. There is comfort in the seemingly familiar.
Such people do not know what they are missing. Empty stadiums are a challenge that reveal much about players and coaches. How to fill the silence?
Written by Paul Doyle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/22/joy-of-crowd-free-football-coady-klopp-canned-chants-cheers-television under the title “Existentialist players and quarterback coaches: the sound of crowd-free football | Paul Doyle”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
