Humble Lion ambush Barbican 4-0 in midweek eyesore

In an affair lacking trademark football grace and style, Humble Lion roared to a 4-0 thrashing of downtrodden Barbican in their Red Stripe Premier League game at Barbican field yesterday.

Jermaine Fletcher led the midweek stroll with a well-taken brace in the fifth and 23rd minutes, while Sean Coleman (17th) and Devon Hodges (33rd) completed the first-half blitz that kept the home team entombed at the bottom of the 12-team league with 15 points.

Humble Lion, out of Clarendon, gained three vital points that should give them a whiff of oxygen as they surged to 22, but will remain in the bottom half of the standing irrespective of results elsewhere.

The Donovan Duckie-coached Humble Lion entered the contest in a precarious ninth position, but yesterday’s goal spree would have certainly boosted morale, even though it may not have ensured a well-needed shot up the ladder.

In yesterday’s hard-to-digest contest where both outfits failed miserably to excite, Humble Lion were more predatory than they were artistic. And Barbican, the league rookie, were easy prey.

A comedy of defensive errors was their undoing, but a hungry Humble Lion were not complaining and licked their fingers at the prospect of what was turning out to be an easy meal.

With little resistance — especially in the first 45 minutes — Fletcher, Coleman, Hodges and Ricardo Cousins effortlessly penetrated the Barbican backline and could have sunk their teeth deeper into their paralysed opponents.

But Barbican, down four goals and in what appeared to be a spot of hopelessness, sprung back to life in the final 30 minutes or so of the contest with enterprising attacking play from Akeem Brown and Lennox Russell, but their new lease on life was a deed too little, too late.

Teams: Barbican FC — Nicholas Campbell, Mario McDonald (Keno Simpson 59th), Ramone McGregor, Akino Bailey, Shawn Lawes, Shavon Charlton, Dadrian Dixon (Jermaine Parris 36th), Nicholas Smith, Lennox Russell, Akeem Brown (Dean Phillips 80th), Andrew Christie

Subs not used: Ashek Taylor, Okive Blake, Shennar Parkinson, Kemar Thomas

Booked: Lawes (36th), Charlton (79th)

Humble Lion — Damion Crooks, Ajuran Brown, Ricardo Campbell, Jermaine Christian, Sean Coleman (Denzil Watson 53rd), Hugh Howell, Fabian Pascoe, Ricardo Cousins (Omar Walters 80th), Dwayne Campbell, Jermaine Fletcher (Narado Brown 68th), Devon Hodges

Subs not used: Garth Heron, Roberto Fletcher, Odane Brown, Shavon Campbell.

Booked: None

Referee: Danean Parchment

Assistant Referees: Princess Brown, Nicholas Anderson

Fourth Official: Leon Brown

Match Commissary: Margaret Sutherland

– Sean Williams

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Humble Lion ambush Barbican 4-0 in midweek eyesore

Man shot by police on Barbican Road

Tuesday, January 06, 2015 | 12:12 PM    

ST ANDREW, Jamaica — A man was shot by police a short while ago during a reported operation at the intersection of Barbican Road and Russell Heights in St Andrew.

Police on the scene are tight lipped regarding the incident but residents are claiming that the man was shot in cold blood.

It is unclear if the man has succumbed to his injury but he was just whisked away from the scene in an unmarked police vehicle.

Residents claim that about 11:30am the man was in his underwear in a room watching television when he was attacked by the police. They also allege that the man was threatened by the cops a few days ago.

More information later

Kimmo Matthews

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Marvin Tate moves to Barbican FC

BY PAUL A REID Observer writer

Sunday, January 11, 2015    

MARVIN Tate knows it won’t be easy, but he has taken over the job of trying to keep Barbican FC in the Red Stripe Premier League for more than just one season.

Barbican are in last place in the 12-team league on 15 points, the same as fellow promoted team Reno FC, four points from safety, and Tate will be the third coach to guide the team in the first season at this level.

Junior Francis started the season as coach but his “sudden” departure “by mutual consent” last year saw Raymond Beckford taking over in a “transition period”, Tate told the Jamaica Observer Friday.

Tate, who has coached at this level before as far back as 1993 with Black Stars then more recently with Village United, told the Observer that he had been with the team just over a week and has taken over the coaching duties as Beckford, a FIFA Level Two certified coach, will not be able, for various reasons, to give the team his full attention.

“After going (to Barbican) and seeing the level of talent and potential there, I think it would be a good opportunity,” Tate said.

He said, “the players have a difficulty in making the transition from Super League to the Premier League, but they are not far off”.

He added that the players had the capacity to improve and this could make a difference over the remaining 15 games in the competition.

Tate argued that his team is not far off from the rest of the league in terms of quality and that even their 0-4 loss on Wednesday at home to Humble Lion did not truly reflect how well they competed.

“It will be a very, very difficult job to try and stay in the league, but it is not too far-fetched to believe it can be done,” he said.

Barbican won the Jamaica Football Federation Confederation play-offs to qualify for the Premier League for the first time ever, but have found the going tough so far. They have the least wins, three, and goals scored, 11, while conceding the most goals, 29, so far.

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Struggling Barbican delighted with point against Cavalier

Lowly-placed Barbican FC held fifth-placed Cavalier SC to an exciting 0-0 draw in a Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) game at Stadium East on Monday night to the satisfaction of coach Raymond Beckford.

“It was just the result we came for,” the Barbican coach beamed. “We could have lost the game after giving up a penalty, but in the same breath, we too could have won as we also had our chances to score, but like Cavalier, wasted them,” Beckford said.

While the Barbican coach expressed delight with the result that pushed him above the relegation zone on 14 points, Cavalier’s Rudolph Speid was far from amused. “While playing very good football, the missing of goals continues to plague our progress.

“It is a game that we should have won, but as you saw, the two misses by Claudius Blackburn in the first half — one a penalty (and) the other when he struck the cross bar — are indications of how we suffer from not making our goal-scoring opportunities count,” he mourned.

Teams:

Cavalier SC — Kadeem Davis, Dwayne Holmes, Girvon Brown, Kimoy Simpson, Jeffrey Grant, Al Nesbeth, Donovan Alveranga, Davion Alves (Jermaine Ricketts 70th), Nicholas Hamilton, Claudius Blackburn (Kemar Shaw 83rd), Davion Roberts (Javanie Mitchell 72nd,

Subs not used: Liston James, Shomoyo Morgan, Raheem Ellis

Booked: Alveranga (32nd), Nesbeth (65th)

Barbican FC — Nicholas Campbell, Ramone McGregor, Jermaine Parris, Akino Bailey, Shawn Lawes, Jodaine Redwood (Dadrian Dixon 73rd), Shavon Charlton, Shennar Parkinson (Dean Phillips 73rd), Kemar Thomas, Roy Forbes (Shaquille Lewis 52nd), Keno Simpson

Subs not used: Mario McDonald, Jamhoy Green, Andrew McDonald, Ashek Taylor

Booked: Charlton (70th)

Referee: Courtney Campbell

Assistant Referees: Lloyd Reader, Stephanie Dale-Easy

Fourth Official: Odette Hamilton

Match Commissary: Garfield McDonald

– Hurbun Williams

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W"House, Barbican join H"View, BT in Jackie Bell semis

BY HURBUN WILLIAMS Observer writer

Saturday, December 20, 2014    

WATERHOUSE FC and Barbican FC scored identical 2-1 wins against Cavalier SC and Rockfort, respectively, to move on to the semi-final stages of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Jackie Bell Knockout competition at Drewsland on Thursday.

Waterhouse will now face Boys’ Town, who scuttled neighbours Arnett Gardens 4-2, while Barbican will do battle against Harbour View, who edged last year’s champions Tivoli Gardens 2-1 in the other semi-final played on Wednesday.

Draw for the semi-final placings were made by KSAFA president AB Stewart Stephenson during the half-time break of the opening game between Barbican and Rockfort at Drewsland.

Mario McDonald, younger brother of Oneil ‘Chippy’ McDonald, put Barbican ahead after 20 minutes, but four minutes later Akeem Higgins unhinged the Barbican defence with the equaliser. The teams continued to battle gamely for the ascendancy with the Leon Mitchell-coached Rockfort FC holding on stubbornly to keep their tormentors at bay and at the same time threatening to upset the apple cart with surprising attacks. However, with 30 minutes remaining, fresh legs from the Barbican bench became Rockfort’s undoing as the diminutive midfielder Shaquille Lewis, who entered the fray six minutes earlier, nipped under the Rockfort radar to beat goalkeeper Neil Morgan for Barbican’s second.

With defeat staring Rockfort in the face, they showed why they are Super League leaders by driving forward with some good dribbling skills and fired away at goal, but Barbican had no intention of relinquishing their lead and held on to reach their second Jackie Bell semi-final in consecutive years.

Waterhouse, who have won the Jackie Bell only four times in their history, had to perform another Houdini act before coming away a 2-1 winner after they once again fell behind at the first hurdle.

Jermaine ‘Tuffy’ Anderson had saved the day for Waterhouse in their second-round match against Humble Lion in the Red Stripe Premier League, but this time it was the much-maligned young striker Jermaine Benjamin, who came up with the two goals that separated the teams to lay the foundation for coach Anthony Patrick to earn his first chance to win a cup as coach of Waterhouse.

Kicking down the slope Oshane Jenkins put Cavalier ahead after 31 minutes and they held stubbornly to the lead for the next 23 minutes. This was before Benjamin sneaked behind the Cavalier defence to squeeze the ball over the line and put the teams back on level terms.

Six minutes later it was a freak of a goal from Benjamin that put Waterhouse into their first semi-final for three seasons.

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Another triple for Barbican

BY SHERDON COWAN

Monday, December 15, 2014    

BARBICAN Football Club’s unprecedented triple-crown defence in the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Sherwin Williams Women’s Premier League has been hailed as one of the greatest of its kind by coach Charles Edwards.

The high-riding team rewrote the history books on Saturday when they defeated first-time finalists Arnett Gardens 3-0 at Drewsland Mini-stadium. The goals came courtesy of Davia Smith in the 50th minute, Annakay Richards’ 78th minute own goal and captain Alicia James in the 87th minute.

With the win, Barbican moved their overall tally to 21 titles, and the latest is their seventh consecutive league win.

A very pleased Edwards recalled some of the struggles his team had to withstand in order to remain unbeaten triple-crown winners for three years successively.

“We started out with a lot of problems; we couldn’t train at the field because it was being refurbished for premier league’s men and we ended up training at JC (Jamaica College) behind a goal area for most of the season,” he told reporters.

He continued: “It was very tedious (as) the surface was course, but I am happy JC allowed us to train there. We had to tailor our training sessions [and] we had to do a lot of little things different, but at the end of the day these girls are true champions.

“They are a calibre above most of the other teams because they stuck with it. We had a lot of injuries from the surface and we weren’t as fit as we usually are… this is one of the best seasons of football coaching for me ever in my life,” he said.

The fair-sized crowd turned up expecting a thriller, but the encounter was nowhere close to a spectacle. The first-half was the closest it went to being competitive as Arnett Gardens started out very promisingly.

The ‘Junglists’ gave as well as they got, and did manage to force Barbican on the back foot on a number of occasions. But when the daylight faded, the champions came alive and stole the ascendancy late in the half.

However, they went to the break goal-less after a glancing header from Tashana Vincent came back off the crossbar and was scrambled clear by Arnett Gardens.

Any chance of an Arnett Gardens victory went up in smoke five-minutes after the resumption, as poor defending allowed an unmarked Smith to neatly head home a well-taken free kick by James.

From then, Barbican went at their opponents rapidly, but Arnett responded efficiently enough to withstand the onslaught.

The introduction o f Trudian Mills injected more tempo to the attacking prowess of Barbican. The diminutive player went straight to work as she used her speed and dexterity to telling effect and maintained the intensity on the right side of the park.

The slippery player picked up a rebound at the top of the18-yard box, but failed to make amends as her crunching right-footed shot rattled the crossbar.

A second goal was inevitable and it came via the own-goal route when the hapless Annakay Richards misjudged an attempted cross by Vincent and fell to the ground in despair as the ball raced into the back of her own net.

And Arnett Gardens’ dream of a fairy tale end to the season was over when goalkeeper Kadiann Edwards allowed the ball to burst through her grasp from James’ left-footed free kick from about 25 yards. The shot lacked pace, but still it proved too much for the hapless ‘keeper.

Meanwhile, Edwards said his team did their pre-game assessment and stuck to the game plan.

“Arnett Gardens is never a fit team and they talked a lot throughout the week, so we sat back and we watched them. We knew what they were coming with and we knew how to play them.

“They were trying to talk their way through it, and we decided that this evening (Saturday), during the ninety-minute period is when we would have fired our shots, and we had three. It was a fabulous game and we won and I am happy for that,” he pointed out.

Meanwhile, Arnett coach Jerome Waite hailed his team’s gutsy performance.

“We were up against the number one team, we had played them twice, and they played with more purpose. Our girls are a young bunch and this is also a good experience for them and you still have to commend them for the fact that they have reached the major final. So overall, we still have to give them credit,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

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Another triple for Barbican