A Rangers-daft schoolboy with Down’s syndrome ditched his wheelchair to steer his staff out on to the Ibrox turf. Mason Gordon, 11, blew kisses to the gang as he walked out of the tunnel with Gers captain James Tavernier final Wednesday. Proud mum Ruth, 49, believes Mason is the primary membership mascot with the situation, and admitted it was an “emotional second” when the teen took to the pitch simply months after having coronary heart surgical procedure.
She mentioned: “Mason has had various coronary heart operations. The final one was in February when his pacemaker wanted changed at Glasgow Kids’s Hospital. He will get drained actually rapidly and is in a wheelchair more often than not however he additionally has ADHD and might be completely hyper.
The entire household are Rangers followers and when Mason was at a Halloween occasion at Ibrox, we have been requested if he’d prefer to be a mascot at one of many video games and I jumped on the probability.” Main faculty trainer Ruth, from Kirkcudbright, was allowed into the tunnel earlier than kick-off on Wednesday when Rangers confronted Motherwell.
She added: “I watched from the dugout as he got here out holding fingers with captain James Tavernier and it was a very emotional second. He was over the moon when Broxi Bear introduced him again off the pitch.” After Rangers’ 3-0 win, Mason had his picture taken with the gamers and Ruth mentioned it was the “expertise of a lifetime” for him.
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