Wayne Fairclough has been appointed head coach of the embattled Arnett Gardens Football Club after talks with Donovan Duckie fell through.

Fairclough was the coach when Arnett Gardens returned to the Premier League back in the late-1980s and he will be once again called upon to save them from relegation.

“That’s my mandate. This is the thing that I have to do,” Fairclough told Sporting World yesterday.

“I was the one that carried them to the Premier League after winning the Jackie Bell, and I am going to do what I have to do,” he noted.

It will be Fairclough’s third stint at Arnett Gardens. Previously, he was the assistant to then head coach Jerome Waite, in the 2004/05 season.

Club president Patrick Roberts thinks he has found the man to solve their problems once again.

“He is the man. We looked at what is out there… we were looking for someone who is more than a coach and can get into the heads of these players and let them feel like they are greater than Ronaldo,” said Roberts.

Arnett are currently 11th in the 12-team league on 21 points, just one above the bottom team Village United, and are in grave danger of being relegated.

Fairclough, the current coach of Kingston College, led Waterhouse to the 2005/06 Premier League title after erasing a 15-point deficit to overall long-time leader Harbour View.

He also coached at Maverley, Naggo Head, whom he led to three consecutive Happy Sutherland KO titles from 1993-95.

A brief stint with Galaxy in the National League followed, but he left in less than a year for his alma mater, St Andrew Technical High School.