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

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.”