Rugby League World Cup bosses apologised after a technical failure forced Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson to keep the St James’ Park crowd entertained at the tournament’s opening ceremony.
Expecting to be singing his band’s hits, Wilson took to sprinting up and down the touchline to raise spirits as the pre-tournament show was brought to an abrupt end when the public address system went down, just minutes before the curtain-raiser between England and Samoa.
