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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.?
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?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.?
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