Arnett Gardens Horace Sharpe tries to elude Tivoli's Owen Gordon in a Digicel Premier League (DPL) encounter at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday. Arnett won the game 1-0. - Winston Sill / Freelance Photographer

AFTER TICKING off a second win in three matches with a 1-0 victory over arch-rivals and league leaders Harbour View, Arnett Gardens player-coach Fabian Davis last night said player instability at the Trench Town club had led to four consecutive losses at the start of the Digicel Premier League season.

"At the beginning of the season, there were some hitches, players needed to understand their roles, respect each other and who they are working for," said the former Jamaican international, who was ushered in as player-coach following the axing of Arnett's most successful coach, Jerome Waite, after four straight losses.

Davis made the revelation after telling reporters, "We are working on team spirit, there is no 'I' in 'team'."

Ejection

Arnett edged Harbour View off Horace Sharpe's 70th-minute penalty, but had to scramble in stoppage time to keep their advantage following the 90th-minute ejection of Arjuan Brown on a second yellow card.

Harbour View staged a tremendous rally in full-time stoppage, creating back-to-back chances.

With Arnett down to 10 men and running down the clock, Rafeik Thomas forced a tight save from goalie Julian McLeish at his near post off a free-kick from the left flank.

Marcellino Blackburn, Harbour View's hero in their past two games, afterwards sent a header over the bar from four yards after Thomas headed on the resulting corner kick from the near post.

No apologies

Davis had no apologies for the win, which took Arnett to seven points, lifting them from next-to-last to eighth in the 12-team standings.

"We came out with a penalty, but it doesn't matter how we got it. We are taking it one day at a time," he said.

Meanwhile, Harbour View, which still lead with 14 points after Portmore United and Tivoli also failed to win at home, said they were undone by what assistant coach Donovan Hayles described as a "split-decision penalty".

"The longer the game went on, Arnett grew in confidence and they got a split-decision penalty," Hayles said.