Ards FC is a special football club…
Any sporting institution fast approaching its 125th year, operational through two world wars and with an enforced nomadic existence over the last couple of decades is deserving of note.
Down through history there have been successes too of course; Irish Cups, a League title and European football.
But recent seasons have been tough, homeless and frankly a mission of survival. So much so that incumbent chairman Warren Patton describes his club’s Five-Year Strategic Plan, launched earlier this week, as potentially being… ‘our last chance’.