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Umm - its their stadium and they set the rules for it. Sure NZ Football may not have asked for an exemption (they shouldn't even have to). I image the stadium management darkly predicted all sorts of mayhem if instruments were allowed, to put off the question even coming up. So from here if all that is required for the Stadium to waive the rule is to be asked by NZ Football then why not just do so?Its so obviously ridiculous.NZ Football doesn't manage the stadium. Surely is easily sorted in a phone call and a media release ASAP.
Once we have a proper rectangular stadium built for Phoenix we can give the security the lowdown on what makes football different from rugby, including animated noisy colourful support.
A very long time ago (1982) I attended a league game between Penarol and Nacional in Montevideo - now that sets the gold standard for noise.