Thursday will mark the end of a very long wait for Hamilton soccer fans. For the past three years, the Barton St. Battalion have been supporting a Hamilton soccer team that they knew was coming but does not yet exist.
They persisted through the slow trickle of information that came out about their team and the Canadian Premier League in which they will play. They kept going even though there was no official start date for the league announced until recently.
On Thursday, they will finally get their reward, as their long awaited Canadian Premier League franchise will be made official at an event at Tim Hortons Field.