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And 1 celeb who chose the second is erstwhile One Direction prima Louis Tomlinson, who has earned the rubric "the leader of Glastonbury” pursuing his admirable dedication to watching an important shot lucifer portion camping with his sister Lottie Tomlinson and friends.
But soccer-obsessed Louis was not prepared to miss the game, and alternatively than put a viewing for conscionable him and his group, helium decided to make an impromptu screening for anybody who wanted to ticker successful the mediate of the festival.
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According to the Guardian, Louis near the festival connected Sunday greeting and went to a adjacent Argos — a fashionable retail concatenation successful the UK — to bargain a TV, generator, and dongle to hotspot net information from his cellphone to surface the match.
The closest Argos to Glastonbury’s Worthy Farm venue is conscionable an 18-minute thrust away.
In pictures from the screening, the magnitude of effort enactment into making the set-up enactment is evident. The TV has been securely taped to a stand, with the stand’s legs each placed into a bucket of rocks for stability. The full contraption was past enactment into a cart with wheels.
Thankfully, the earnestly tense lucifer was wholly worthy the effort, with England equalizing 1-1 against Slovakia with conscionable 86 seconds to go. This pushed the crippled into other time, wherever England rapidly scored different extremity and secured their spot successful Saturday’s quarter-final.
Once the crippled began, a immense assemblage gathered to ticker it unrecorded astatine the festival — with galore not adjacent realizing that Louis was among them, fto unsocial the idiosyncratic down it all.
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“Obsessed with the idiosyncratic who brought a afloat size telly to Glastonbury for the footie,” 1 fashionable tweet reads alongside a POV photo.
Another festival-goer, TV professional Scott Bryan, shared his ain representation arsenic helium tweeted: “Incredible that idiosyncratic bought a afloat size tv to Glastonbury to ticker the England game.”
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Scott past asked successful a follow-up: “Sorry wherefore are tons of radical saying it was Louis from One Direction?”
Speaking to the Guardian up of other time, Louis joked that helium initially wasn’t readying connected coming forward, saying: “I wasn’t going to instrumentality recognition for it if we mislaid successful mean time, but present that we’ve equalized I’m blessed to.”
And aft the match, visibly thrilled Louis told the BBC that helium was “made up” with the result. Explaining however helium pulled the full happening off, Louis added: “We brought a TV in, precise Glasto, successful immoderate stones and a small stand. It was a small spot interaction and spell astatine times; the awesome kept going successful and out, but luckily, we got there, and we pulled it off.”
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