Ed Sheeran buys shares in Ipswich football club

The 33-year-old British pop star Ed Sheeran has acquired a minority stake, equal to 1.4%, in Ipswich Town football club, a club newly promoted to the Premier League this year, after 22 years of purgatory in the lower leagues. Sheeran, a lifelong Ipswich fan, said: “I am very pleased to have acquired a small percentage of my hometown football club. It is every football fan’s dream to own the team they support.”

To Ed Sheeran and to his Ipswich Town we wish the same fate that befell several years ago Elton John and his Watford. In the spring of 1976 Elton John in fact, he fulfilled one of the dreams he had had since he was a boy living in the council houses of Pinner: to buy the football team he had always supported, Watford. What at first might have been thought to be the whim of a rich and bored rock star, in reality turned out to be a sporting success story. Elton John in fact, he took the team that was struggling in the fourth English division and brought it, in 1982, to the first division – our Serie A, which is now called the Premier League – and, the following year, thanks to the second place in the final standings, to the prestigious European stage with participation in the UEFA Cup.