'It Wasn't A Good Look': Rod Stewart Addresses World Cup Backlash

Sir Rod Stewart has addressed the backlash he got for cancelling a California concert less than a day before appearing at a FIFA World Cup game. 

The California gig was cancelled due to an “acute upper respiratory infection” that left him with laryngitis, his team said.

But some eyebrows were raised when, hours later, he posted footage in a private jet on his way to a World Cup match. Its caption read: “Me and the boys off to Boston to see our Scotland in the World Cup! No Scotland no party”.

This came days before the singer was left “doubled over” in a Utah concert and required an oxygen mask mid-set. “I nearly fucking fainted there,” the star told his audience after using the mask. He then reportedly sat down for the rest of the show.

Sir Rod has since said on talkSPORT that the footie flight “wasn’t a good look”.

He said, “I really shouldn’t have gone to the Haiti game.

“I had to cancel a show the night before because I just had no voice left. But the truth is, Jim [White, the podcast host], I wasn’t going to let my two sons down.

“I promised them since they were born that we’re going to go to a World Cup, and this is the first one that’s come about. And it wasn’t a good look, I admit, but I’m going to just have to take the stick. So, I did it for the boys.”

His sons, Alastair and Liam, were in attendance at the match, which was the first World Cup win for Scotland since 1990.

That means that his boys, aged 20 and 31, respectively, weren’t even alive the last time such an event took place.