The Canadian musician supersizing Dumbarton FC Women: ‘The players are a megaphone for the team’

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Mario Lapointe became the Scottish club’s unlikely owner last year and his radical plans are taking shape at The Rock“A lot of people ask me the same thing,” says a laughing Mario Lapointe, on how a Canadian songwriter and entrepreneur became owner of the Scottish lower league club Dumbarton 12 months ago. “When I was looking for a football club, this club kept calling me back – not literally.“For example, I wrote a song in 1992 which had a lyric about sitting on the rock, and Dumbarton’s stadium is called The Rock. It’s also on the river and I wrote a lot of lyrics about rivers and ships, so it felt meant to be.” Continue reading...