England fans criticise Ed Sheeran’s ‘depressing’ private concert for team at Euros 2024

The singer visited the team’s camp in Blankenhain to perform for them

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Ed Sheeran gave the Euro 2024 Britain group a confidential show after their 2-1 triumph over Slovakia on Sunday.

The 33-year-old artist visited the group’s camp in Blankenhain to perform for them, which saw player Jude Bellingham and chief Harry Kane in attandance.

Chief Gareth Southgate organized Sheeran’s visit as a feature of endeavors to make the competition charming for the players.

Notwithstanding, fans noticed that the competitors showed up not exactly energetic during the Grammy champ’s presentation.

In film orbiting via online entertainment, Sheeran is seen at the front of the room, playing an acoustic guitar and singing his melody The A Group, known for its strong verses, recounts the tale of a vagrant engaging fixation.

“Of late, her face appears gradually sinking, squandering, disintegrating like cakes. Furthermore, they shout, the most terrible things in life come free to us,” he sang as a few vacuous players recorded on their telephones.

After the video became a web sensation on the web, Britain fans took to X to remark on whether Sheeran’s exhibition had the confidence supporting impact Southgate planned, as the crew gets ready for their next game against Switzerland on Saturday.

One wrote: “Got these young men looking discouraged, no big surprise the football’s looking horrendous.”

“Aren’t the players previously discouraged enough?” another joked,

A third then, at that point, guaranteed: “No doubt we’re going out [of the tournament] young men.”

This isn’t whenever Sheeran first has performed for the Britain group. In 2020, he played for the crew before their last against Italy, a match they eventually lost on punishments.

Showing up on BBC’s Crouchy’s Year-Late Euros, Sheeran depicted a confidential execution he provided for the Britain crew at a grill in 2021 as one of the most outstanding snapshots of his vocation.