Those people who went to Yokohama, with their costumes, silly hats, painted faces, and all geared up to yell and make noise non-stop, are an important element of the World Cup: spectators as spectacle. Television has altered many things in the world: nowadays stadiums are parades, sports matches are multistage shows, and the awareness of witnessing is the awareness of being witnessed.

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