"Come on the good guys!" is a refrain which I have heard exclusively at Celtic Football Club matches.  As far as I am aware, the thinking is that Celtic, as opposed to R*ngers, are football's forces of good.

I'm drawn to an underdog and an underdog which takes the right course.  I started supporting Olympique de Marseille, Celtic and Liverpool through chance, sorry, by the grace of God, but I've genuinely taken pride in the happy bonus that each of these teams, either officially or via supporters' groups (or both), held a left-wing political position and championed the causes of the oppressed.

Recently I've had to rethink as the waters have been muddied by several incidents, primarily in the case of Celtic and Liverpool.

Particularly, Celtic, whose support have long had sympathies towards the republican cause in the north of Ireland, have found themselves embroiled in a row regarding content of songs being sung and, Liverpool, with their support of a player accused of racism.

So Neil Lennon's attacker John Wilson has got off the charge of assault aggravated by religious prejudice, by way of a "not proven" verdict.  This is despite the court hearing he had called Lennon a "Fenian bastard".

It seems an absolutely staggering conclusion, though some have suggested that it may be due to the decision to prosecute on a complex accusation rather than "straight up" assault.  I'll use my words carefully but some have found that decision to be, let's say, confusing.  Pictures showed John Wilson move quickly towards Neil Lennon and then strike him.  Surely if the charge had been based solely on what millions saw on these images, a conviction for something more than simply a breach of the peace would have been assured, perhaps even with a guilty plea.

But let me be clear, regardless of plausible conspiracy theories, I have a problem with the verdict, not the charge.

A funny thing happened on Sunday.  I rushed to the pub in order to not miss The Huddle prior to the St Mirren game, but also in the hope that one of the screens there would have Channel 4 showing, so once again I could witness history being made.

At 12:45, just as the game in Paisley was kicking off, Usain Bolt - supposedly unfit, unfocused and out of form - was bang on course to shortly obliterate his own 100m world record in Daegu, South Korea.  I was eager to see something spectacular but, alas, Channel 4 was not showing and instead my attentions were redirected to exclusive digestion of the football.

That is until a fellow patron brought up the contentious decision by the IAAF to disqualify offending athletes on the first false start, rather than only omit participants who jump the gun on a subsequent attempt to get the race underway.  The new ruling has been under close scrutiny in the World Championships currently taking place, with Britain's Christine Ohuruogu and Dwain Chambers falling foul of the directive, and plenty have argued that it is needlessly strict and unforgiving, to the detriment of the spectacle.