Come on feel the noise
- 14 Jun 06, 04:29 PM
IBC, MUNICH – The fun thing about watching games at the International Broadcast Centre is hearing cheers echo around the building when a goal’s been scored.
Even though the IBC is broadcasting to millions of people around the world, any football fan knows it’s virtually impossible to contain yourself when your team scores.
The shape and size of the IBC means noise carries around the building, so even if you’re not sat in front of a TV screen you know immediately when there’s been a goal.
The most vocal supporters at the IBC? Yeah, you guessed it – the Italians.
The BBC office is sandwiched between TV Globo from Brazil, and Daum Communication from South Korea, so there was no doubting who was playing yesterday! (It was mostly cries of derision from TV Globo.)
Earlier in the day our South Korean neighbours politely asked us to take a bit more care when closing the door to our office. So if there are any Koreans out there wondering why they could hear the occasional loud bang during the first few days of coverage, please accept out apologies.
TV pictures are broadcast with a slight delay, so we watch live feeds of the game rather than television coverage.
Unfortunately some of us forgot this on Saturday – the cheers from another part of the office as we were watching Beckham line-up his free-kick ruined the drama somewhat. We won’t be making that mistake again.
PS. I saw a German headline today claiming Chelsea want to sign German left-back Philipp Lahm (who scored a cracking goal against Costa Rica). Has anyone seen any other good transfer gossip in the foreign papers?
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