Saw this while surfing for "You'll Never Walk Alone + Liverpool + Celtic"

Celtic vs Barcelona - Stadium YNWA (http://www.servecast.com/asx/celtic/mail/ynwa.asx)

and I wonder if this kind of atmosphere can help foster the building of badminton into a sport almost or more popular than football in the world. After all, with more audience, more yield in profit thus more coverage on the telly.

I am a Liverpool fan and was close to tears watching this while listening to the earphone, loud and powerful. A symbol of kinship in sports and goodwill. I can only imagine the fear and goosebumps on the skins of the Spanish team when the song echoed in the stadium.

Imagine having this kind of chant all tournaments where China is playing, singing their own "Zhong Guo Jia You" or Malaysians doing a "Fikirkan Boleh!" in harmony. The roof could just collapse!

It does happen during badminton, WC03' is one example but it cannot compete with the sheer power of a collective voice of 60,000 Glasweigians.

Imagine 60,000 Chinese in their badminton hall in China.
All of us here in BF would be moved to tears...

The closest I've seen of this was Istora Senayan in Jakarta but not as poignant that it moves tugs at your heartstring. (Or perhaps because I'm not Indonesian...)

... I wonder how long will Lee Wan Wah be holding his hands up, "Not ready!". http://www.badmintonforum.com/vb/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

No comments about this?

well, me personally, i find no no beneficial nor negative effect when people cheer for me....

if i really need support, i'm usually dumb enough to cheer for myself... =P




i remember the first time i played doubles and a bunch of ppl made that "woooooh" noise when i jumped up to smash.... only for me to land on my feet again cuz i noticed the bird was about an inch out =)

they never cheered for me again :p

i hate that "malaysia boleh" chant. it is so annoying because there's always a loudmouths whenever it's a match with Malaysian players in it, they are so annoying.