Taking pictures/videos at games

[This Is The Daybreak]

Another rant and a moan but this really annoys me. I don't mind the occasional photo as I would do if I visited a stadium for the first time but I was at Chelsea away yesterday and this Japanese guy a few rows from me was filming pretty much the entire game on his phone, including rushing to get Frank Lampards penalty on there. Thankfully he was one out of a big crowd who intended on making a nose so the atmosphere didn't suffer and it is more prominent at home games (especially in the Upper Tiers).

It is a moan at society in general as you see people doing it at concerts and a lot of big events all the time but can people not just enjoy the moment and the atmosphere of watching football. I accept tourists who visit London would like to see a football match, if I went to Madrid or Dortmund or anywhere like that I'd try and get my hands on a football ticket but I wouldn't spend the entire match filming it or taking photos. I'd enjoy the experience and savour every moment like I do when I go to concerts and go to Arsenal. Just go away, you don't help atmosphere, it's distracting to everyone around you and I hope the guy who was filming the game yesterday had their phone break in the jostle after Walcotts goal. Rant over

[Rosie_titters]

how did you know he was japanese

[SteveO 35]

The only time I have done this was in the hour or two leading up to the Champions League final in 2006 at the Stade de France because I wanted to capture a moment that I never thought I'd see again (right there by the looks of things).....but all this "here's me and my mate watching us play Coventry in the League Cup" bollocks drives me mad. It happens all the time...but the club love it because it is the tourist fan base that they covet so much that mostly do this

[QuartzGooner]

Happens at matches and concerts.

Cannot understand it.

By all means take a photo of yourself at a game if you are a tourist, perhaps during the warm up or post match.

But why film a game on a phone? Just do not understand it.

Same with concerts, what kind of sound quality will you get?
Are you seriously going to watch it again?

If it is an MC or DJ battle then I understand, because you will catch unique lyrics or skills.
But again, the sound quality will be questionable.

[BournemouthRED]

You mean like this *word censored*?

[Top Londoner]

Same here Steve0. Post match champs lge. Pictures to remind me. Little did I know that it would never happen again. Still have the same crappy Nokia phone too.
I think that anyone filming during a football match should be punched in the throat and their mobile handed over to a steward. Nothing too harsh though.
Wankers

[DB10_TH14]

normally i will take a picture on me phone when i get inside a ground that i havent been too before but thats it, i can never understand why when we've scored you dont celebrate but get a phone out etc etc and just record whats happened around you instead of goin mental?!?! strange thought process if you ask me

[SteveO 35]

I have to say though nothing infuriates me more than constantly talking during games. I remember when we drew 0-0 at home to Milan a few seasons back before beating them in the return; I had the dubious pleasure of sitting in the upper tier. I had a group of blokes behind me that chatted incessantly about anything and everything apart from the game - work, the family holiday, Chloe's piano lessons, how the kids were doing at school, a good restaurant they went to last week. Fuck me, football has always been and will always be escapism for me.......going there and talking about everything else, I can't understand it

[dave75]

I'll take the odd photo on my phone b4 the game. Usually just for later banter/sharing with mates who don't go football. Yesterday i took my one & only photo during a stoppage for an injury.

I was directly in front of that Japanese guy yesterday. Was a little annoying, tbf him & his mate sounded like they were well into the game.......well from what i could gather they were vary vociferous with their Japanese!

[QuartzGooner]

Kind of half and half about that SteveO.

Think there is going to be a certain amount of talking about the game during the game; whether the referee has go it right, should we make a substitution, who's on the bench? etc.

As for talking about others things there is going to be a bit of it quite naturally.

But I agree, it is odd and can be a bit irritating when people are having a whole conversation about unrelated things during a game. Suddenly they will pipe up with some comment about the game then go back to their chat!
Had to suffer some loudmouth last season going on about how much cash he earns and what he spends on cars, then go on a rant about how Arteta was a waste of money and we should have stuck with Denilson!
Some people are just strange.

But it is not the opera and the crowd does not need to be in silence.

[littlefire]

I'm thinking of filming a Giroud showreel for Les Mis II.

[topgoon]

I'm thinking of filming a Giroud showreel for Les Miss II.

Fixed it for you

[Perryashburtongroves]

Why don't they go the whole hog and get an easel out and do a spot of watercolour?

[Steve_I]

I have to say though nothing infuriates me more than constantly talking during games. I remember when we drew 0-0 at home to Milan a few seasons back before beating them in the return; I had the dubious pleasure of sitting in the upper tier. I had a group of blokes behind me that chatted incessantly about anything and everything apart from the game - work, the family holiday, Chloe's piano lessons, how the kids were doing at school, a good restaurant they went to last week. Fuck me, football has always been and will always be escapism for me.......going there and talking about everything else, I can't understand it

Agree with you here and, once you become aware of something like that it annoys even moreso.

[jacko-arsnl2]

I like to take a photo on my phone before kick of at a stadium ive not visited before but i have no idea why i do it as i never look it again, so with these guys videoing the game do they go home then watch the videos from their phone, might aswell watch MOTD for highlights

I was at gig once and the lady in front of me thought she was film nearly the whole thing, but she forget to press the massive red record button the whole time. At least she had the memory of watching it through her little screen