[Football] GOAL music...

[A1X]

I hate all artificial stimuli when a goal is scored - goal music, bubbles (!!!) and also giant flags behind the goals when the home team scores (Arsenal)

It's akin to TV and theatre audiences being shown an "applause" or "clap" prompt. It should be purely organic.

(Oh and @PeterT totally agree re: Sweet Caroline and that even worse "so good, so good, so good" added to make it even more cringe - as the kids say these days)

TBH one of my favourite things about VAR and it's penchant for ruling goals out is seeing all that happen then the goal being taken away again

 

[Official Old Man]

It was interesting to compare the two 'fan zones' in the last few weeks.
Fan Zone with light show, very little noise.
Fan Zone at 3pm with no light show, louder.
So is it just a Brighton thing that we don't like or want drums, lights and goal music.
I also note from going to away games, few clubs have a DJ/Compere but we do and it works.
In my mind we've got the mix just right (just dump the light show). Post match also is spot on and reads the crowd perfectly.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Hate goal music. But hate drums even more......tuneless bang bang bang all game long regardless of what is happening on the pitch. I'm all for banging on the back of the stand from time to time as part of a crowd chant but not that relentless droning on.....

Why not go the whole hog and have suspenseful pre-goal music while VAR does its thing. Maybe accompanied by a roll on the drums. The pantomime would be complete

 

[Washboard Didgets]

It was interesting to compare the two 'fan zones' in the last few weeks.
Fan Zone with light show, very little noise.
Fan Zone at 3pm with no light show, louder.
So is it just a Brighton thing that we don't like or want drums, lights and goal music.
I also note from going to away games, few clubs have a DJ/Compere but we do and it works.
In my mind we've got the mix just right (just dump the light show). Post match also is spot on and reads the crowd perfectly.

I don't mind the light shows etc, as it can all help to build up the atmosphere.

I caught the pre-match of the Man City game last week and it was genuinely like the pundits were trying to broadcast from a night club/festival. Found this video (which doesn't have sound for most of it) – I think this is way more lighting and lasers than the Fatboy Slim show at the Amex back in 2012!



Guessing you don't approve!

 

[Washboard Didgets]

This one has sound, but was filmed on a potato...

 

[Official Old Man]

I don't mind the light shows etc, as it can all help to build up the atmosphere.

Guessing you don't approve!

At a FBS concert maybe, but this is a football match.

 

[Diallo]

Goal music is so last year. So glad we never took that trend on. One thing I’ve never understood, instead of playing music, why not project famous artwork onto the big screens as the players celebrate scoring? A Van Gogh picture followed by a Picasso pic whilst an Albion player slides on his knees celebrating a goal could be exactly the combination that’ll give the Amex that atmosphere it’s been missing?

 

[Washboard Didgets]

At a FBS concert maybe, but this is a football match.

If you watch the second video with sound, you could be forgiven for not being able to tell which you'd walked into!

 

[Normandy seagull]

I must be the only one but I like the Leicester goal music- it’s must be up there up not hating Palace like most on here!

 

[Triggaaar]

I must be the only one but I like the Leicester goal music

Goal music and the like are there to add a bit of zhuzh to a shit sport that isn't interesting enough on its own. So it suits American sports well, but football is god's game and doesn't need it. Except for when it's played at Selhurst park, when it's not really like football at all and goal music and a ****ing eagle seem to fit in with the whole shitfest.

 

[trueblue]

I went to an ice hockey match once. Needed trauma therapy for years after.
Like attending an American High school pep rally in a fast food chain outlet.

Or a World Cup match in Qatar. Grim.

 

[trueblue]

At a FBS concert maybe, but this is a football match.

Can I join you in being an Official Old Man? When I mentioned Qatar, that was one of the worst things about their soulless World Cup. Wall to wall, deafening music in the build-up. Crap 80s bands. A moronic DJ yelling at people to make an atmosphere. A massively over the top ‘opening ceremony’ for every single game all the way through to a countdown to kick-off right up to the whistle. The football became a complete sideshow to the point you almost forgot why you were there. Absolutely no chance of an atmosphere being generated. The locals loved it because they didn’t give a shit as long as they got some nice photos for instagram. Some even smiled and applauded politely before they could revert to looking bored stiff during the actual game. Seemed to me the intention was to turn every match into an ‘event’ which I suppose helps justify the rip-off ticket prices. Honestly, if football goes that way, it’ll lose almost everything most English fans love about it.