It was Tim Burton who once said 'One person's craziness is another person's reality'.

As we nervously tip toe into 2017, leaving the heartbreak of celebrity death and disaster behind us, bampottery seems to be this year's slogan even in these early wintry days.

As of yesterday, the United States finally have a millionaire turnip as president - ironically voted for by millions of turnips - in what is surely the worst appointment since Paul Le Guen. Or mine, as I'm sure you'll all agree.

Elsewhere, in a court room somewhere in a land not far from here you currently have a £250,000 battle with a bookmaker over whether Rangers were relegated or not - "Are they no deid?" the judge asked at the start of proceedings - while we are now almost a week into a promising Australian Open campaign and Andy Murray is still being referred to as Scottish.

The world has officially lost the plot.

As ever, the whimsy, mental arena that is Scottish football should not be excluded from all the fun, with Hamilton Accies supporters this week getting in on the act by announcing that they will be boycotting one of their team's upcoming games.

Sometimes the gags just write themselves...

They did once say football was the game of the people. Nowadays it's clear it's the game of the deluded.

It's about time some clubs, and in certain respects Scottish football got a reality check.

Group WeAreHamilton are the organisation behind the move to not attend Accies' game with Kilmarnock on February 4, protesting against a manager they claim they have no faith in and against a board they disagree with on various levels.

On last inspection, Hamilton hadn't transformed into Real Madrid.

Some forget just how far this club has come in the last decade. Even less than that.

It was only in season 2008/09 that the team from across the Clyde rose up to the Scottish top flight to join near rivals Motherwell on the start of a three year spell. They are now back there in their fourth season after dropping back down a tier.

Prior to that, it was pretty much two decades of bobbing about in the Championship, with only a dip down a division for a season at the turn of the millennium to break the monotony.

Supporters may not be happy with Martin Canning, his players, his board or his choice in French cuisine. No fan wants to see their team not win games, a feat Accies have only managed to achieve twice in the Premiership.

However, they should perhaps look around the empty stand they occupy every second week to remind themselves how privileged they've been to be in the Scottish top flight for as much as they have.

In what is the most sustained period of prominence at Hamilton in more than a generation, they continue to draw not much more than 1000 home fans to watch them. That's not even half of the team on the other side of the M74.

That figure is hardly going to pull in tonnes of cash that will allow Canning to sprinkle some magic dust across his squad. It's also not going to be much of a lure for a player weighing up what Premiership club has the pleasure of paying for his next Nando's.

Money ultimately talks. In a recent survey Accies came bottom of the pile in terms of average player salaries, while the payouts earned from selling James McArthur and James McCarthy will surely now be running dry (the former left in 2010 and the latter a year later).

Canning is an inexperienced manager, and will make mistakes. With the budget he is working with, so will his players.

But with Hamilton sitting second bottom just six points from the top six with 17 games to play, those threatening to boycott their already struggling club in the hope it will cajole the Accies custodians into bursting the bank to bring in Jose Mourinho should have a word with themselves.

Either that or run for president.