Sore Truth!

When I was growing up i remember all them old adages like, 'The truth will always find you out', 'Honesty is the best policy' and the one as kids we heard a lot, 'tell the truth and you won't get beat'. Well nothing much has changed, well okay a lot has changed, firstly honesty is not the best policy anymore and the truth comes a long way behind 'conniving and cheating'. You don't even have to tell lies yourself, you can get a professional liar (accountant), to do it for you. Ballymena United football club, have always tried to do everything in an honest manner and this year when they applied for their U.E.F.A. licence they saw no reason to deviate from the truth, in short they showed their accounts in an open and frank way. This included the payment of 3 amateurs, who were getting more than that allowed under the rules. Now let's be honest here, United are not the only club practising this so called deception, in fact I'd hazzard a guess that every team in the Irish league are doing it. So why then have United been singled out for this punishment? The answer of course is because they showed their accounts in an honest and straightforward manner. No hiding behind expenses for replacing corner flags, no our club decided that 'honesty was the best policy. Their reward for this 'honest' approach was a £1,000 fine, so where is the incentive for teams to tell the truth now?