United Kingdom, June 25 -- Sir Rod Stewart has admitted it "wasn't a good look" to attend a World Cup game the day after cancelling a concert due to ill health.

The Maggie May hitmaker pulled out of a show in California on 12 June just hours before it was due to start after contracting laryngitis, but the following day, he faced a backlash when he posted a video of himself and sons Liam, 31, and Alistair, 20, flying to Boston in a private jet to watch his beloved Scotland take on Haiti.

And now the 81-year-old singer has addressed the criticism and insisted he didn't want to let his kids down after years of promising they would go to the tournament if Scotland qualified.

Speaking to Jim White on talkSport, he said: "No, I got an awful....