‘I spoke to him this morning, he’s not well.’

Australian pop star Guy Sebastian is in hospital and due to undergo surgery after suffering a rupturing Achilles in a local footy game alongside AFL great Brendan Fevola.

The music and sporting veterans turned out for Masala Dandenong Thirds on Saturday and helped the struggling Division 5 team to a win one week after they were demolished by 229 points.

Sebastian, in full kit, performed some of his biggest hits at half-time and scrapped plans to leave early, getting back on the field only to finish with what he described as “a little injury”.

Fevola said it was a far worse situation than Sebastian let on.

“I spoke to him this morning, he’s not well,” Fevola told Channel 7’s Sunday Footy Feast.

“He had a mate’s 40th back in Sydney so when we decided to do this to help out a footy club … they’re horrible. That was the whole point.

“There were a couple of other teams to play (on Saturday) but Guy Sebastian just released his new single, Maybe, so I said ‘mate, do you think you can come out and sing at half-time and he said ‘mate, I’d love to’.”

The catch was that Sebastian would not be able to stay for the whole game, but he enjoyed himself so much that he stuck around to keep playing — a decision he would come to regret.

“Guy actually played the first quarter, sung at half-time, sung virtually a whole concert and then he was so into it, he was actually having a crack,” Fevola said.

“He goes ‘I’ll play the second half’. Fourth quarter, I saw him fall down and I couldn’t stop laughing because he just fell. I was like ‘mate, singers shouldn’t play footy, footy players shouldn’t sing, keep to your genre’.

“And he looked around and he goes ‘I think something popped’. I said that’s not good, because I’ve done both Achilles.

“He’s ruptured his Achilles. He’s getting surgery on Monday and is in hospital. So he missed his mate’s 40th but hey we got good headlines, which is great (laughs).”

Sebastian joined the circle for the team song while on crutches, then shared his own update in a light-hearted post on Instagram.

“Thought I’d strap on the boots after a LONG hiatus and performed for the locals,” he wrote.

“Great day out for Masala Dandenong getting their first win with Brendan Fevola kicking a bag!

“Unfortunately I’ve done a proper number on myself. #realitycheck #sticktosinging #footyglorydaysareover.”

Fevola was the star of the show at Lois Twohig Reserve, kicking six goals in the Tigers’ 7.13 (55) to 8.5 (53) win over South Melbourne.

The win ended their 20-game losing streak.

Fevola and Sebastian played in the match as part of a promotion run by Fevola’s breakfast radio program.

They were initially scrutinised for their involvement given VAFA rules state that no players are allowed to be paid.

But Fevola hit out at the investigation, saying he never gets paid for any of his appearances.

“Everyone thinks I’m getting paid to be doing this but they don’t realise we’re doing it for radio,” Fevola said on The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick.

“All the other presidents around the VAFA have blown up. What’s wrong with these people? Pull your head out of your butt.

“We are doing this for a team that is bottom, bottom, bottom of the ladder in Division 5.

“There’s no cash here.”

Fevola recently joined Richmond’s AFLW side as a specialist coach helping out the forwards.

He said the role, his first formal position at a top club in more than a decade, came about after a dinner at veteran journalist Mike Sheahan’s house.

“I didn’t realise (Sheahan’s daughter) Kate was involved at Richmond,” he told Sunday Footy Feast of the Tigers’ long-time head of women’s football.

“She sort of floated it as a ‘what do I think of AFLW’ and as I said to her, I’ve got four daughters and I pretty much watch every game and I have from the start.

“I’ve been down (at Punt Road) the last couple of months but pre-season officially kicks off tomorrow so I’m super excited for that.

“To be back in footy land, to be among the girls, I think it’s a real credit to the AFLW girls — they don’t get paid much, they’re in their voluntary work for the last two months, they’re in there every day.

“And they’re doing it because they want to get better and they want to play footy. That really excites me, because they want to learn.

“They’re pretty much sponges, everything you say they take in. They want to watch tape.”

He said he is “like a 12-year-old kid” when Richmond stars Katie Brennan and Monique Conti come to ask him for advice.

“I literally can’t wait for tomorrow, I’m so pumped,” Fevola added.