WHILE champions-elect Harbour View will be popping champagne before and after their match against Waterhouse at home, Arnett Gardens, Sporting Central and August Town will be scrapping the bottom of the barrel for crucial points for their Premier League survival in the penultimate round this afternoon.

Harbour View — who gained their third lien on the trophy following wins in 1999 and 2006 after opening up an unassailable seven-point advantage — will have all of their nine age-group club teams on display as part of the celebrations.

Starting from their First Kickers team, which consists players ages four to 12, to the senior team will be acknowledged for their outstanding contributions throughout the season.

Harbour View also won the JFF Under-21 title and are on the cusp of retaining the KSAFA Under-20 title. They will also be honouring their KSAFA Under-15 champions from last season.

A few seasons ago, 2005 to be exact, Waterhouse chased and overturned a 13-point lead that Harbour View had, winning by four points. But this time, the Drewsland outfit cannot spoil Harbour View’s party, even if they win.

Regardless of the outcome at the Compound, it will be joyous scenes and Harbour View will be crowned deserved champions.

Meanwhile, with the DPL winners already decided, the relegation battle will take focus and the clash between the two bottom teams, Sporting Central (37) and August Town (36), could see the losers being relegated today, especially if 10th-placed Arnett Gardens (39) beat Humble Lions (42) at home.

Clarendon-based Sporting Central can afford to lose and still have a chance if Arnett Gardens also lose, but if the Onandi Lowe-coached August Town lose, they will be relegated to Super League football again.

Sporting, having beaten August Town twice at home this season, should be confident of another win at Brancourt. But those results will count for nothing in this crucial clash.

Former champions Arnett Gardens and Humble Lions are not safe and it should be a humdinger at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex.

Both will have the unfair advantage of knowing the result of the earlier game between Sporting Central and August Town and will know what is required for survival.

Arnett, who trail Humble lions by three points, are unbeaten against the Clarendon outfit, but have not won in their last seven games — drawing six times and losing 1-2 to Harbour View.

Arnett have lost the winning formula and will need to play the biggest game of their season and secure a home win and, if Sporting fail to win, secure their DPL survival for next season.

Although Rivoli United, in eighth spot on 42 points, are not safe mathematically, they should be relaxed in their encounter against seventh-placed Portmore United, on 43 points.

But if both Sporting and Arnett win, Rivoli cannot afford to lose as it would mean they would be level with Arnett and lead Sporting by only two points with one game remaining.

That is a scenario Rivoli would want to avoid and will be pressing for a win against a more relaxed Portmore aggregation which earlier flirted with relegation.

It should be a sombre mood at Collie Smith Drive where dethroned champions Tivoli Gardens (66) visit fifth-placed Boys’ Town (45).

At the Elliston Wakeland Centre, home team Village United (44) and fourth-placed St Georges (50) will be fighting to see how high they could finish, which is fourth place, something to build on for next season.