Supporting a football, sorry, 'fitba' team in Scotland is a fiercely passionate and tribal experience. With a top-flight league consisting of 12 teams, and then 10 in the Championship, you really would get sick of the sight of certain clubs and their players over the years and bitter rivalries all over the country are the result.
Celtic players will know all about this, as by pulling on the green and white jersey you must accept that you will be given a tough time by those who align themselves with the blue side of Glasgow, but poor Scott Allan suffers more than most.
As he has yet to find a 'forever home' in his career thus far, the man currently on loan at Dundee has played for nearly as many clubs has he has played senior matches. An exaggeration, yes, but this is quite a football passport for 25-years old:
He signed for Celtic after being named Scottish Championship player of the year while at Hibs in the 2014/15 season, but has played just 13 times since and spent last season on loan at Rotherham before heading for Dundee.
This, Allan admits, means that wherever he goes he's bound to run into someone that hates him as he told The Scotsman this week.
Hearts fans probably don’t like me because I played for Hibs. Hibs fans probably don’t like me because I left. Rangers fans probably don’t like me because I went to Celtic. I started at Dundee United but their fans probably don’t like me because now I’m at Dundee. Celtic fans know that when I was a wee boy my favourite team were Rangers and that’s a good enough reason for Aberdeen fans to hate me. What a shambles!
Poor fella. Can't help but be reminded about that classic Groundskeeper Willie clip...
It appears as though his future at Celtic is not the most promising as the club look to have secured Patrick Roberts for another season while Allan appears far down the pecking order in Brendan Rodgers' plans.
Who knows, maybe he'll follow in the footsteps of Kenny Miller and play on both sides of the Glasgow divide if his boyhood team come back in for him, but for now, at least he's got a got a sense of humour when it comes to taking stick.
You can read Allan's interview in full over on The Scotsman.
