A spade is a spade and never a big spoon. Truth is a bitter pill but when you muster courage and swallow it, you end up getting healed. Stephen �Tornado� Appiah must retire from the Black Stars as his time is over. That is the only open truth that can save the one time enforcer of the national team from the acrimony and ill will that he faces from Ghanaians now that he is forcing himself to be fit.