Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Added crowd noise

Isn't it great that the Premier League is back on?  I've missed it - and it's absence definitely left a void that things like Korean baseball could not fill.  But oh boy, how bad is the "added crowd noise" that the coverage here has added to the matches?  I've no idea whether this is something specific to the US, and I've got no idea if this crowd noise is specific to the TV coverage or something that gets piped into the football stadiums.  I suspect it's just for the TV audience, but boy is it unsettling and ridiculously out of sync with the actual happenings on the pitch.  And there seems to be an awful lot of buzzing.  Along with the clear goal that somehow goal line technology and VAR missed in the first half of AVL vs SHU, then perhaps we have some kind of big technology failure in this restarted season.  I wish there was an option to turn off the artificial crowd noise - but I fear that a complete lack of crowd noise will be even more unsettling.  And what's this now - an official water break?  In the tropical and humid climate of Birmingham in June?  Good grief.  And if you're going to have some cardboard cutouts of spectators in the crowd, or a video of some fans in a Zoom meeting, you need to have a lot more than just a dozen or so in a stadium with a maximum attendance of 40,000 plus.  And "substitution windows"?  Whatever.  I fear these "temporary" changes to the game will quickly become permanent.

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