Boxing with David Beckham made me throw up!

Pop star Tom Grennan has advised William Hill’s Stripped Podcast that an embarrassing sparring session with David Beckham left the England and Manchester United legend shaking his head in disappointment. 

Talking to William Hill’s Stripped Podcast, a brand new sequence by which ex-footballers and celebrities are invited to make a journey down reminiscence lane by revisiting their favorite shirts, Grennan defined the incident.

“My mate Pete, he’s Beckham’s good mate however can also be David and Victoria’s private coach,” he mentioned. “He was like, do you need to come and do some boxing with Becks and me? I used to be like, uh yeah, undoubtedly.

“I used to be nicely unfit on the time although, so I used to be having to place my courageous face on, boxing away. I may really feel myself about to be sick. I couldn’t be sick in entrance of Beckham, so I ran out of the room and was sick within the rest room! I then walked again into the room and he shook his head in disappointment. Becks thought I used to be a wuss!”

Grennan grew up in Bedford and located his love of soccer and his workforce Manchester United at an early age.

“I used to be about 5 or 6 in 2001,” Grennan, who selected United’s 2000/01 dwelling equipment, mentioned. “It was round this time I’ve my first reminiscence of soccer and falling in love with a workforce and a participant. Paul Scholes was my man, however I fell in love with Keano [Roy Keane]. The best way he performed, his perspective on the soccer pitch; he’d pores and skin everyone and simply hammer folks. That prime is an icon of Keano, his skinhead. Clearly, it was a superb time for United again then too.”

Grennan added: “The rationale I’m a Manchester United fan is as a result of I’ve a giant Irish household, and all my cousins over there are large soccer followers. I actually do assume, being from Eire you might be both Liverpool or United, and my cousins had been United,” the 27-year-old singer mentioned. “There’s a image of me, 5 days after being born and I’m in a United child develop. It’s all the time been in me to be a United fan. I’ve all the time been linked to the badge.”

The success of his music profession has given Grennan the prospect to fulfill his footballing heroes and even play alongside them when collaborating in Soccer Help 2022.

He mentioned: “For Soccer Help, I sat subsequent to Teddy [Sheringham] on the coach on the best way to the stadium. I say Teddy like he’s my mate… We spoke for the entire journey. He advised me a great deal of tales. He’s finished all of it that man. There’s a nice considered one of him on the Nou Camp. He truly known as his home the Nou Camp.

“Enjoying with these legends on the pitch, I keep in mind the ball getting kicked to me, I search for and see [Wayne] Rooney coming at me. I handed the ball previous him, dropped a shoulder, and obtained spherical him. I keep in mind Jamie Carragher taking the ball off him and slicing a ball 30 yards to Patrice Evra. I simply thought these are my heroes, seeing Paul Scholes simply whipping it about. It was surreal, it nonetheless provides me butterflies speaking about it.”

Nevertheless, considered one of his heroes actually left an impression on him on the pitch, as Grennan took a heavy deal with that left him injured.

“I really like Patrice Evra. He did injure me although!” he mentioned. “He went by me, couldn’t deal with the tempo! I tore the ligaments in my foot. I did get a pleasant message from him although. Per week after it occurred, I nonetheless hadn’t heard from him and was considering he has undoubtedly been advised I’m not in a great way. Two weeks later I get a message in my inbox from him, what a legend.”

As a youngster, Grennan had hopes of a soccer profession of his personal and was on the books of Luton City, however his reminiscences of their shirt from the early-2000s are tinged with completely different emotions.

“It’s part of my previous this shirt, I’d nonetheless put on it,” he mentioned. “I wouldn’t say it’s haunted however there’s this factor about Luton and the way I used to play for them. That was the dream, to play soccer. I hit 17 and there’s a resolution on whether or not or not you make it to the following step, and I wasn’t adequate. I had just a few trials at Northampton and Stevenage, and I wasn’t adequate to play. I really feel like again then when that occurred, the dream fizzled out. I didn’t hate the sport, however I wasn’t bothered about it. I stop soccer and fortunately the music occurred.”

Grennan’s influences when he was youthful primarily got here from the pitch moderately than the stage, and he mentioned: “All these folks, they’re my superheroes. Once I get requested about who influenced me in music, I say nobody actually. Once I was a child, I wasn’t actually wanting as much as musicians. Footballers had been my superheroes.”

Reflecting on his errors in soccer which have helped to gasoline his music profession and set him on the trail to success, Grennan added: “My perspective undoubtedly wasn’t proper, however what I learnt from soccer and why I believe I’ve discovered success in music, is to take recommendation. I haven’t made the errors in music that I did in soccer. I’ve absorbed data, I’ve listened to my supervisor. With music, like soccer, it’s a workforce effort. A lot goes on behind the scenes with the label and the individuals who work there, everyone seems to be coming collectively to make the venture work.”