Scum Escape!

The I.F.A. senior clubs committee decision to fine Coleraine £5,000, has just went and handed a 'carte blanche' to any member club to run up 'mega debts', in the full knowledge that they will only be fined a nominal sum. Surely there must be a tougher deterrent for this despicable offence? If not then we are leaving ourselves open to a repeat performance from some other club willing to throw money out in Telephone numbers. I did wonder at the time where the 'scum' where getting the money from, when they signed a couple of high earners from Glentoran, but now I know, it was coming from people like myself, tax payers. Probably the Inland Revenue started the 'ball rolling' when they not only 'wrote off' the Coleraine tax bill, rumoured to be half a million pounds, but allowed them to resume trading without a 'name change'. Having said that, that's no excuse for the Senior clubs committee to allow them to get away with it also. The excuse given by this fine body of men (an anaemic bunch if ever there was one), was that they could've been perceived to have a 'vested interest' if they deducted any points from Coleraine on this occasion. What a load of 'hogwash', when before have these reasons stopped them reaching completely 'biased' decisions, the answer of course is never. What was their motive I asked myself and the only answer I can come up with is that they thought it might be their turn in the not too distant future. What we really need are accounting measures laid down by the I.F. A., that clubs must adhere to and the books must be balanced every year. Then and only then can we hope to avoid a 'repeat performance', but I suppose that wouldn't do, for then we might realise how much some clubs (with the knowledge of senior officials), are 'creaming' off the top, long before the tax man get's near it. I am being a bit silly here, aren't I, this will never be public knowledge, so the conclusion is that the Senior clubs committee were in fact, safeguarding themselves!