Just Boys!

With the confirmation in the last few days that a number of Norn Iron boys broke the 21-30 hours curfew on the Sunday just after the Poland game, comes the realization that the players are really just in it for the money. They don't give a toss about the dedicated fans who spend their hard-earned money following them all over the world and flock to Windsor Park paying exorbitant prices for a seat in a second rate stadium, which let's admit it,is an accident waiting to happen, just to cheer their heroes on. A pure coincidence I'm sure that Keith Gillespie was in Belfast on that night, possibly strolling round the streets of his native city. We may never know who the players involved were, or if in fact they were all involved, but surely the least we fans can expect is a unanimous apology from the players and a promise that it won't happen again. Nigel being the disciplinarian that he is will extract the full retribution on the culprits and don't be surprised if quite a few players never don the green shirt again. If anybody thinks Nigel isn't capable of wielding the axe, look no further than Keith Gillespie, who got on the wrong side of the Ballymena man and when the chance came paid the ultimate price. We at Ballymena have found ourselves recently in the same boat when our first team squad thought it would be a good idea to go on a binge while the United manager was in America. As a result in their next home game, with a decent home crowd in attendance, they 'lay down' without a whimper to Glenavon. Our players were, we are assured, fined for this indiscretion, but why oh why did they have the need to misbehave in this manner in the first place. Is it I wonder the fact that despite all this talk about professionalism, they are still just 'boys' and as they say, 'boys will be boys'!