Don’t take your work home with you. That can be easier said than done, of course, especially if you’ve just suffered a real kick in the teeth against Rangers.

From a winning position with barely 10 minutes left on Saturday, Partick Thistle were stung late on as the Ibrox men turned it around in the last knockings to claim a 2-1 win.

Like all those of a Jags persuasion, Callum Booth was left cursing another deflating defeat and the 25-year-old admits it wasn’t much fun for the nearest and dearest who are closest to him either.

He said: “I certainly bring my work home with me. My wife certainly knows that if we lose then she shouldn’t speak to me much on Saturday. We had family up at the weekend so we went for a meal and that made me forget about the Rangers game for a while. But you still wake up on the Sunday mulling it over. I’m not great company at the weekend if we have lost.

“But it’s a new week, we’ve done a lot of good work at training so far and I think it’s out of the system now. By the middle of the week, you’re feeling a bit better about yourself. I have a Wednesday off so there’s maybe a bit of making up to do to with the wife to try to get back in her good books.”

Thistle don’t want to be left having to make up too much ground on those above them after they slithered to the foot of the Ladbrokes Premiership and they face a crucial encounter this week against ninth-placed Hamilton Accies. There’s nothing much between 12th and sixth in the league, though, and Booth is keen for the Jags to arrest a run of four successive defeats and inject the festive fixture list with renewed vigour.

The Firhill outfit have a decent record against the Accies and have not lost in the eight previous meetings between the sides. That unbeaten run included a rousing five goal rout in January 2015 when Kris Doolan went on the rampage and scored four times. Booth is expecting a much tighter tussle at New Douglas Park this weekend, though. The last time the sides met in October, Thistle’s Achilles heel was exposed again as Accies snatched an equaliser with just seven minutes left in a 2-2 draw.

Booth added: “We were disappointed the last time we played them. We were 2-1 up with 10 minutes left at home and we ended up drawing. We have a good record against them but there have been plenty of tight games and lot of draws and I expect another close one on Saturday. It will certainly be hard fought.

“It’s a massive game for both team and a real six-pointer. We’re looking for a wee springboard. The games are coming thick and fast which is something to enjoy but you want to go into these with a win. We’ve not got much momentum going this season. It’s been a bit stop start. We’ve not quite got going. It’s hard in this league but hopefully we can do that in the run-up to Christmas.

“The manner of the defeat to Rangers was a massive, massive blow to us but we can’t just sulk and moan and feel sorry for ourselves.

“The game plan was going perfectly against Rangers and we’d worked hard on how we could stop them. It worked a treat, we were good on the ball, we created chances and then it just turned. Sometimes it just comes down to luck and we’ve not had much of that this season. Fingers crossed, the tide turns for us soon.”