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THE HARBOUR VIEW
FOOTBALL CLUB
celebrates it's
30th Anniversary (March 4th,1974)
all season long 2003- 2004.
Since the days when
the eager citizens of Harbour View grouped together
at the Harbour View Primary School halls to meet
and greet each other all around The love of football
mostly then at the Minor League Under 16 years
level before taking the conscious decision to enter
the Major League in September 1974 after electing
officers in the newly formed Harbour View Football Club
previously named after the community only – Harbour View.
HARBOUR
VIEW AND SEBA PLAY TO A 0-0 SCORELINE.
In a game that seemed a true
reflection of its scoreline.
The revenge to be executed on
the part of Seba was not to be realised as the strikers wasted
three clear opportunities in the second half to take all three
points from top of the table team Harbour View at the Jarrett
Park venue in front of a very small home crowd.
Harbour View looked very flat
as they strolled around the park seemingly unruffled by the
threats of the Seba attackers while not breaking a heavy sweat
in trying to wear down the opponents defence.
Coach Donovan Hayles was not
amused with the inefficiency of his team both in defence and
attack, remarking to the press that his team was fortunate to
come away with a point thanks largely to custodian Leeroy
Grey.
HARBOUR VIEW UNDER 21
Team set to get all three points as ejected Seba player is
arrested by a police officer after his boisterous behaviour.
Harbour View lead the game 1-0
after 65 minutes when the referee signalled the end of the
game as only 5 players remained on the field. The other
members of the Seba squad followed the police vehicle as it
carried away the offending player to the police station.
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ON SUNDAY
DECEMBER 14th AT THE HARBOUR VIEW STADIUM DEFENDING
FEDERATION CUP CHAMPIONS HARBOUR VIEW PLAYS AGAINST
PORTMORE UNITED THE DEFENDING PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! |
FOCUSSED ON VICTORY HARBOUR VIEW RETURNS TO WINNING WAYS OVER
WATERHOUSE AT THE COMPOUND
A
more single-minded team unit finally remembered what it takes
to gain three points as a plucky performance at home was a
breath of fresh air to the Harbour View supporters which
included World Class athletes Usian Bolt, Jermaine Gonzales
and the gorgeous Bridgette Foster big sister to homeboy Lovell
Palmer.
Loyal fans remained for a hour
or more after the game still savouring the thought of being
back again on top of the Premier League table, in addition to
the atmosphere of excellence that permeated the grounds as
’the real’ gold and blue team turned up today to correct the
anomally left behind from the end-of-first-round finals when
waterhouse lifted the coveted crown for the title plus
$150,000 and an enormous measure of pride.
Fabian Taylor looked sharpest
at the start with telling runs goalwards resulting in a fierce
grounder slamming at the base of the right upright with
goalkeeper Loxely Ried well beaten plus two headers flashing
wide of the mark from out jumping defenders around the penalty
spot. Jermaine Hue’s two leftfooted drives were well handled
by the experienced Ried while Clifton Waugh’s 40 yards
diagonal pass to the left corner flag attracted the attention
of Robert Scarlett whose designed square evaded the
out-stretched efforts of attackers, defenders and the
goalkeeper alike for the alert overlapping Donald Stewart to
slam home from 10 yards beyond the far post. Harbour View up
1-0.
The 36th minute celebration
seamed to have a victorious statement attached to it.

Waterhouse attacking plays
centered around Nigerian Ucheckuwu Chinyere, Irvino English
and Damion Powell counter-attacking if and when he wins the
ball from his man marked hit-man Jermaine Hue. The efficient
Baris Johnson coordinated defensive and early attacking
combinations at the back but the dynamic team plays displayed
in the first round was noticebly absent today. The half ended
1-0.
Waterhouse came alive as the
ends changed, searching tentatively for a goal that had eluded
them thus far only to realise Harbour View was more intent on
increasing the lead.
It came only nine minutes into
the half when a Fabian Taylor shot was charged down by the
central defender but as it bounced Jomo Gordon pounced on it
to drive home from seven yards much to the seemingly surprise
of custodian Loxely Ried to cast an air of invincibility to
‘The View’ on the day. A block on the goalline by William
Richards, fine saves from Leeroy Grey and stout-hearted
defending by Palmer, Stewart, Waugh alongside Richards and
completed by the energetic midfielder Conrad Hunt.
Supersub
Nicholas McCreath made his entrance immediately soliciting a
marker who struggled helplessly to contain him even when
fouling him before he passed to Taylor to slot home from six
yards only to be ruled offside. The game pattern remained
unchanged throughout with Harbour View dominating possession
and Waterhouse competing through long searching dribbles
upfield combined with simple passes aimed increasingly at
Chinyere who got maximum rotational attention from Waugh,
Richards, Harvey and Grey in goal.
That plan worked well
throughout as Harbour View resorted to a stay behind-the-ball
strategy that frustrated the opponents while Akeem Priestly
and Dino Williams replaced
Conrad Hint and Robert Scarlett
adding attacking punch to the weary team unit who were now
staring defeat squarely in the face and accepting it after 90
minutes.
Harbour View 2 Waterhouse 0.
INVADERS GAIN A DRAW AWAY TO HARBOUR VIEW
In an unattractive display of
inconsistent football Harbour View again produced a below par
first half performance against the maturing Invaders of
Trelawny at the Compound this afternoon.
The result means that Harbour
View has only scored one victory in their last six games when
they played to a 4-2 win over Rivoli United. A record that
reads as follows:
- 0-1 versus Reno
- 0-0 versus Star Cosmos
- 4-2 versus Rivoli
- 1-2 versus Waterhouse
- 2-2 versus Constant Spring
- 1-1 versus Invaders
The results reflect a current
slump in form that has garnered only 6 points from the
possible 18 points, 8 goals for and 8 goals against, twice we
have not scored, twice we have scored only once, twice we have
scored more than two goals, once have we not conceded a goal,
twice we have conceded one goal,three times we have conceded
two goals , Robert Scarlett has scored once,Lovell Palmer and
Jermaine Hue has scored twice and Fabian Taylor has scored
three times.
A first half that created very
little excitement was punctuated by a 36th minute tap home on
the line by an unchallenged Livingston Williams who benefited
from a free header at the back post resulting from an indirect
free-kick. The half ended Invaders 1-0.
A totally different Harbour
View came out in the second half with a sense of urgency that
signalled they came to play as Invaders packed their defence
with six players and looked for the occasional counter-attack
through ace forward Thomas Grant who gave the defenders a
torrid time all afternoon with his blistering pace and shots
on the run.
Coordination was smooth in
midfield and flowing upfront, it peaked with the introduction
of Conrad Hunt, Nicholas McCreath’s return and Kemar Petrekin
was added culminating in a passing combination of Jermaine Hue
finding McCreath whose shot goalward was blocked at the far
post by custodian Richard McCallum for Fabian Taylor once
again to follow through and score his ninth of the season.
The disappointed group of
supporters filed out of the gates as they pondered the next
game performance on the weekend against league leaders
Waterhouse.
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