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21st May 2016

Twitter didn’t love Tinie Tempah’s FA Cup Final entertainment

Tempahs flared.

Tom Victor

It’s no ‘Abide With Me’, that’s for sure.

Tinie Tempah provided the pre-match entertainment for this year’s FA Cup Final, and it was certainly different to the usual Wembley offering.

Admittedly, the platinum-selling musician has a football connection, with ‘Written In The Stars’ being the soundtrack to Sky’s coverage of the Premier League for a number of years, but not everyone was impressed.

https://twitter.com/KellyCates/status/734056936128323584

There were complaints about him ruining the natural cup final atmosphere.

https://twitter.com/JacobSteinberg/status/734057260029202433

https://twitter.com/joehallwords/status/734057188256284672

There was some support, at least

Though we’re not sure all of it was sincere.

In the end, though, as is so often the case, there was no beating Henry Winter for an on-the-pulse observation.