Howard Walker, Staff ReporterIT'S D-DAY at the Harbour View Mini Stadium today as the champions of the Corporate Area will be decided after the return-leg matches in the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS)/KSAFA Super and Major League finals.
Boys' Town, holding a one-goal advantage, will tackle Bull Bay at 6:00p.m. in the feature Super League final in one of three matches. At 4:00 p.m., Meadhaven take a slender 1-0 lead into the Major League final.
In the curtain raiser at 2:00 p.m., Santos and Greenwich Town clash for the third in the Super League.
Boys' Town, once the kingpin of local football, have one hand on the Super League trophy after clipping Bull Bay 2-1 last Saturday and will be hunting their first title in 13 years.
In 1992, Boys' Town defeated Maverley-Hughenden to lift the Major League crown and one towering defender on that team was Andrew Price, the present coach.
Price, a former Manning Cup champion with St. George's College in 1983, says his team is fit and rearing to go and won't be sitting back on a slender one-goal margin as they are aiming for quick goals.
"We will be going for two early goals in order to put them on the backfoot and nail home this advantage. Every game that we have played, we play our usual attacking style and have been averaging two goals a game," said Price, the communications and promotion manager at Wray and Nephew Ltd.
In three meetings so far, Bull Bay have won twice and lost once. On January 8, Bull Bay won 2-1 and on April 23 Bull Bay won 1-0. But more recently, Boys' Town turned the tables on the previously unbeaten Bull Bay at the right time.
OVERTIME
Michael Campbell, national invitee, Oneil Thompson, veteran, Fitzroy "Piler" Anglin, Troy Dawes and Kirk Edwards will have to work overtime, especially with Jermaine Bailey suspended after picking up a red card last week.
Bull Bay, the 2001 Major League champion, had a fantastic unbeaten run to the final before succumbing to the Red Brigades last Saturday and will want to put that behind them.
The green and yellow-clad Bull Bay, led by player/coach, Barrington Gaynor are confident of overturning the one-goal deficit and crown themselves Super League champions.
"We are two goals better than Boys' Town and I am confident in the team's ability to beat them and that is exactly what we are going to do," said Gaynor, who won the Manning Cup in 1982, a year before his opposing coach won with St. George's College.
In fact both coaches played on two teams that had some titanic battles in the 1980s for Harbour View and Boys' Town.
Bull Bay will be depending on the competition's leading goalscorer, Asa McIntosh, Jermaine Taylor, Eric Allison, Oneil Gayle and Andrew Laing to bring home the beacon.
