Now that England has taken over, we can make a first assessment. Not particularly sporty, it is still too early, but rather what has really fascinated us since Germany relaunched the ball: the false moods in the stadiums. Leagues, supporters and clubs have competed in imagination around the world to find devices capable of making the almost general closed doors a little less sad because of the pandemic. We tried to classify them for you. With only one hope: that it never happens here.
The idea that went wrong: the cardboard portraits
The concept brought together everything from supporters to club salespeople. What if, rather than empty stands, we planted a few cardboard men on the seats with the fan face? A nice way to fill the stadium and give an impression of presence to the players, while a little bailing up the club boxes to the tune of € 19 for the cardboard space in the stadium.
From Mönchengladbach to Australia and Asia, the idea quickly gained ground. Until she slipped, necessarily. Was thus seen in the stands, during a rugby match in New Zealand, a certain Harold Shipman, whom his Wikipedia page presents as "an English general practitioner who was until then the serial killer of criminal history in England, which committed the most crimes (more than 250, even if only fifteen were imputed to it) ". Another surprise guest? Adolf Hitler, whose wiki biography will be passed to you.
Okay, who let Harold Shipman in? Https: //t.co/iU0kw1Xbmy pic.twitter.com/q87TSinHaR
- Angry People in Local Newspapers (@angrypiln) June 1, 2020@FOXNRL @NRL @BuzzRothfield - is the below legit? How does this get approved ?? Fox sports laughing about it as if it's a joke. People really need an education of history. pic.twitter.com/YhQbckaOo2
- James Israel (@ james_israel7) May 31, 2020The idea seemed good, however, at the start…
The good idea that we will never see: the app from Germany
At the beginning of May, all the European media only talked about this. An app made in Germany thanks to which supporters - up to 350,000 in the same match - can transmit their emotions by clicking (shouting, whistling, singing) on their phone, all directly linked to the stadium PA system. Great ! Except that since, no news from myApplause, which does not seem to have found an agreement with the Bundesliga.
A few days ago, the Parisian revealed that young Canadian students had developed a more or less similar app, "HearMeCheer". "This application uses the microphone of your smartphone or any other device to capture reactions at your home. In less than half a second, an algorithm filters and compresses all the sounds collected for the selected match and reproduces them in a comparable atmosphere, ”explains the daily. But hey, by the time it arrives from here, the public will already be back in the stadiums.
The real bad idea: Korean sex dolls
So this one had to dare. Rather than supporters, rather than boxes, let's go cheerfully on inflatable dolls. And even if it means going on inflatable dolls, you might as well take sex dolls. Congratulations to FC Seoul for having this brilliant idea, which cost them almost 80,000 euros in fines from the Korean league and apologies.
The false good idea: video games of the 2000s in Spain
In principle, it was ambitious. Why not recreate a kind of virtual audience visible to viewers in computer graphics? The Spanish La Liga tried the case, in association with a Norwegian box. The result is how to say ... amazing. But in the wrong sense of the word. It is very difficult to assimilate this porridge worthy of pre-2000 video games. Not to mention that the thing jumps out of two. In short…
El público virtual que está poniendo la liga española en los estadios son literalmente los gráficos del Winning Eleven en el Play Station 1. La verdad es preferible ver las tribunas vacías that ese mix de verduras congeladas atrás del arco. pic.twitter.com/KuFxG6uVip
- Nico (@ NicoPalombo96) June 13, 2020The least worst of ideas: The English Zoom party
Discovery Wednesday evening, for the resumption of the English championship. The idea is a kind of giant zoom party, a bit like you and your friends during confinement. The idea: fifteen supporters of the home team stand behind their webcam in uniform and encourage players from their living room, live. Their images are broadcast in gallery mode by several giant screens, some of which are placed behind the goal allowing players to see them. And to feel a little human presence. Better than nothing.
The idea that works best: the sober background sound
If there is one thing to remember from all this, it is that we will never replace the public. But in this situation, and since we must find solutions not to make these matches boring to die for, it is undoubtedly the English who have best prepared their history, with a timid sound background of songs from the local club, not too present not to oversell an emotion - as the Bundesliga did with soundtracks that sounded very fake - but loud enough to cover the sound of rain, for example. The result is about the same as expected: it feels like you are in a real football match, but you don't hide its exceptional aspect. Note that English fans, in front of their television, have the possibility of cutting this background sound.
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