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AWOL GOALKEEPER Kelvin Jack will face the wrath of Alan Kernaghan when he reports for training today, after being branded as thoughtless by the Dundee manager.


The Trinidad and Tobago stopper missed his side’s 3-0 mauling at Dingwall on Saturday, despite an ultimatum from Kernaghan to report to the ground by 1.45 pm.

The Dark Blues boss was still seething last night at his keeper’s no-show and said Jack’s excuse will need to be solid if he is to have a future at Dens.

“He has let me down, but more importantly he has let the club and his team-mates down,” said Kernaghan.

“The fans paid good money to travel to Dingwall and pay good money every week they come to watch us, but he doesn’t care about that.

“I don’t think he has shown an ounce of thought for his team-mates or the supporters for one second.”

On his way back from Bahrain, Jack could have got off the flight in Madrid and returned to Britain with the other Scotland-based players—Marvin Andrews, Russell Latapy and Jason Scotland all played for their clubs on Saturday—but he opted to return to Trinidad for their World Cup qualification party.

The Dens Park club took over his itinerary, booked him onto a plane to Heathrow, connecting with an Inverness flight which would have seen him make the Ross County match.

However, Jack didn’t make it to Dingwall, having missed the connection in London and, with Derek Soutar injured, Dundee were forced to throw youngster Scott Murray in for his league debut, with 16-year-old Jamie Kelly as his back-up.

Kernaghan explained, but did not excuse, his wayward keeper’s absence.

“I’ll tell you the facts,” he said.

“He was supposed to be in at 9 am at Heathrow, but the plane was late so he couldn’t get the connecting flight up to Inverness.

“I’m going to speak to him on Monday—I have to find out all the facts and if they’re not to my liking then…”

When asked what consequences the Soca Warrior might face, the Dundee boss would only say, “I’d rather not go into that now because I’d be putting the cart before the horse.”