'Will I retire? I’ll have to one day': Rod Stewart on his tour and love of football

Rod Stewart tells Ed Power about his upcoming Irish dates, his cover of Grace, and his ongoing love affair with football.

The hotel suite where Rod Stewart has been installed in Dublin is the size of a small football pitch, which is probably as well as at this very moment he is kicking a ball.

It’s what you expect of Stewart — the 1970s rock god for whom the beautiful game is almost as all consuming a passion as music.