There will be a Guinness World Record attempt for the most vuvuzelas blown at one place before the 2009 Vodacom Challenge match between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Thursday evening.

At exactly 19h57, fans will be asked to blow their instruments and a team of 300 volunteers will count their pre-assigned individual sections of the stadium (made up of approximately 100 people), before the final numbers are tallied and the results announced at halftime.

Adjudicating the attempt on behalf of Guinness World Records will be Englishman Rob Molloy, the organisation's Director of Television. Aside from jetting across the globe assessing the validity of record attempts, Molloy is also involved the production of Guinness World Records’ many TV programmes, something he calls his ‘day job’.

“I have been lucky enough to get this opportunity to come to South Africa and adjudicate on the world record for the most vuvuzelas blown,” Molloy says. “I am a big football fan so to come to an Orlando Pirates-Kaizer Chiefs derby is very special.”

But this is not Molloy’s first visit to South Africa. He was previously in Mzansi in 2008 to successfully adjudicate the “world’s longest kebab at the Arcelor Mittal Steelworks in Newcastle [KwaZulu-Natal]”.

“That was among my favourite record attempts. Another I really enjoyed was in India, where we had to count the most different food dishes on display at a festival [there were 2007 different dishes], as well as the world’s largest human flag in Portugal. For that one, 18 000 women wore coloured clothing to represent the Portuguese flag and were positioned as such to make the image complete.

“That was as a special send-off for the Portuguese national football team for the World Cup in 2006.”

Asked whether he had ever heard a vuvuzela before, Molloy says he had only ever been exposed to the sound of one.

“I think I might need ear-plugs!” he says. “But on a more serious note, I know the Spanish press in particular were not happy with the vuvuzelas during the Confederations Cup, but I don’t agree with that at all”.

“If you have a World Cup in South Africa, you should hear South Africans sounds and that includes the vuvuzela. In Brazil they play drums constantly during football matches, is that any different?”