Why would you support Hamilton when all you want to do is complain?

And once beholden to the Accies, a realisation quickly dawns that this isn’t going to be a relationship full of big days out, European adventures and open bus trophy parades. That’s for other folk. Not a single person wearing the red and white of Lanarkshire can be called a glory hunter. Mental is a better word but, you know, in a nice way.

So here’s the thing. Why in the name of all things holy and John Lambie would anyone go to all the Accies games and shout at the players, and I mean real abuse being hurled, when things every so often go wrong?

If you don’t like below average performances and disappointing home defeats then ping your badge to Bayern Munich or someone because ranting and raving about a poor game at Hamilton is akin to complaining about the cold at the South Pole.

But there are a few, maybe more than a few, who go along to Douglas Park – let’s be old school – and give the players and the manager Martin Canning, a club legend and very decent man, dog’s abuse for a few hours and think that’s acceptable.

True, this has not been a good season for Hamilton but what on earth does anyone expect? Of the twelve Premiership teams they have the lowest wage bill by a distance, no more than a few thousand go to the home games and holding onto any half decent player is near too impossible.

And then they dare to be not automatically relegated but most likely in a play-off! Release the hounds.

Saturday’s Lanarkshire derby was awful but intriguing. It was between two struggling Scottish football teams and Motherwell, slightly the better of the two, won 1-0. No biggie, as the kids say.

But the abuse which poured from the stand at the end, and it was personal, was outrageous. No Hamilton player gave anything less than their all, it’s simply a lack of quality which is letting them down and, let’s be honest, the Accies’ problem has never been that there has been too much quality in the team.

My suggestion is these halfwits go and support someone else. If less than brilliant results are your problem then watch Celtic. They win all the time so it’s easy.

In saying all that, if Hamilton could defend then they wouldn’t be second bottom and facing two games against either Falkirk or Dundee United to stay up. Saturday was no classic but the home side would have come away with a point if they had marked Louis Moult’s run on 67 minutes but instead the Motherwell striker, a fine player it must be said, was allowed to header the ball off his shoulder for the goal which most likely keeps the Fir Park men in the league for another reason.

As Darian McKinnon, the Accies midfielder said, it’s all a bit shit.

“If you’re not going to win a game at this time of the season then the last thing you can do is give away a really soft goal,” he said. “And yet again it’s a set piece that has killed us. It’s really frustrating.

“It was a brutal game. It was long balls from both teams. It wasn’t enjoyable to play in. But in that situation what you need to do is just take the point. But it’s criminal to lose another set piece.

“We were not set up to defend. We didn’t get a chance to get up at them. They just cleared it up the park and we did the same. It turned into a nothing game. But if you can’t win, just take a draw and hope for a better game next week.

“There was nothing in the game. It’s a free-kick, one guy goes with his man but doesn’t get there. It’s just shit!” Quite.

As for Motherwell, this is a club which has to get its act together. None of their fans, hardly glory hunters themselves, expect them to win the league but at the same time they shouldn’t be in this much trouble.

They will probably be safe now but Motherwell should be challenging for a top six place rather than being in a position wherein relegation is a reality with two games of the season to go.

As Stevie Hammell, who on Saturday played his millionth game for the club,, said: “It was a huge game for us. It’s about as big as it gets in terms of where we find ourselves in the league. But we’ve come up with the goods.

“It was relief at the end. If it was the last game of the season it would have been different but there’s still a lot of work to be done. There are still two massive games for us. Until we are mathematically clear then that’s when we will celebrate.

“It would be nice to be sitting in a better position. We don’t seem to do it the easy way at Motherwell. We don’t seem to ever have a dull season. We don’t seem to let seasons peter out. We always have to have a bit of drama in there.

“But if we get there there will be good stories for the summer. But we are going to do it the hard way as usual. Hopefully over the next two games we can get there.

The Motherwell support were, in contrast to the Accies lot, superb on Saturday and it was appreciated.

Hammell said: “I don’t think many teams could bring a support like that here and get behind us in the way they did. To outsell the home team was brilliant. It does help when they get behind the team like that.” Once again, quite.