Two things the English can't live without: football and Glastonbury. The legendary summer festival which took place at the weekend drew 200,000 people to see sets from headliners Dua Lipa, LCD Soundsystem, Coldplay, SZA and Burna Boy, even as England fought for their lives in a thrilling elimination game against Slovakia in the football Euro 2024. tournament.
According to Guardian, former One Direction star and solo singer Louis Tomlinson broadcast the game live at a camping festival on a flat-screen TV attached to a trolley powered by a generator on Sunday morning, attracting hundreds to the site to watch the match. The move came after festival officials announced last week that the match would not be screened at the Glasto grounds to avoid clashing with the main stage acts.
“It's the second monitor I've bought,” Tomlinson said Guardian When the game went to extra time after England's Jude Bellingham made it happen with a thrilling goal in the 95th minute. Harry Kane scored in extra time to send England into the quarter-finals.. “The first one broke. I wasn't going to recognize it because it looked like we were going to lose in normal time, but now that we've equalized, I'm happy.”
The Guardian said Tomlinson bought the gear earlier in the day and originally planned to watch the match in the VIP backstage area, before the wrong reception forced him to find another location near the Pyramid stage. Tomlinson, dressed in a vintage England windbreaker, said: “It was a bit touch and go at times because the signal kept going back and forth… luckily we got the win and got through.”
Watch the stage at Glastonbury below.
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