It’s always disappointing for a player when their celebrations after scoring a goal are cut short by the assistant referee’s flag. Doubly so when the decision is proven to have been made in error.

But when you’ve scored just two goals in 70 appearances for your club and it happens to you, it must be truly heartbreaking.

Spare a thought then for Partick Thistle’s Callum Booth, who slammed the ball into the net against Hamilton on Saturday before celebrating what he thought was the winning goal with his supporters.

His instinct at the time told him that teammate Chris Erskine, who provided the cross for his finish and was wrongly adjudged to be offside, was in fact a good yard or so onside.

In hindsight, his instinct was proven correct, making for a miserable weekend for the 25-year-old.

“I don’t score too many, so that makes it even worse!” Booth said.

“I’m absolutely devastated, it was clearly onside. I don’t even think it was close, and I’m sure the rules are that if it is touch and go then the attacker is meant to be given the advantage.

“It couldn’t have went any better if I had scored the winner in front of the away fans, it would have been a great weekend. Instead I’ve been sitting devastated on Saturday night.

“Having watched it back I don’t think any Hamilton boys even claimed offside.

“I was hoping after the game that it might have been offside, because then you can say ‘fair enough’, but to be about a yard onside makes it even worse to be honest.

“It’s one of those things, he obviously didn’t mean to get it wrong, but I felt a few crucial decisions didn’t really go our way in the game. Our luck has got to change, it can’t really get any worse at the moment.

“Hopefully it evens itself out, because I don’t think we’ve had too much luck and we’ve been on the end of a few poor decisions.”

Booth felt his side should have won the match anyway even allowing for his disallowed goal, but it is only now that he is able to reflect on the positive aspects of their performance.

“Away to Hamilton we know that we can’t really get the ball down as much and try to pass our way through them,” he said. “They work really hard and they have a lot of energy.

“It was always going to be a scrap, but I thought overall we edged it and had a few decent chances, and I can’t think of any saves for Tomas [Cerny] really to be honest.

“It’s hard to take the positives from it on Saturday night when you feel you haven’t got what you deserved, but looking back on it on Monday morning you can reflect and see that you played quite well.

“It was the same the week before against Rangers, and I can’t believe we’ve only got one point from those two games.”

Thistle now face the formidable task of taking on Brendan Rodgers’ unbeaten Celtic side on league duty this Friday night at Firhill.

Booth knows it will be their toughest assignment of the season to date, but he is hoping Celtic’s punishing schedule can work in the Jags’ favour.

“Celtic are a level above Rangers even, but on paper it’s not a bad time to get them,” he said.

“They had a tough game on Saturday, they play again on Tuesday then they have us on Friday.

“That’s a lot of games in a short period, so hopefully that can help us even though they have a really good big squad. Even their fringe players have real quality and international caps.

“It’s going to be a tough game, but these are the ones you want to be involved in. Friday night under the lights at home on the telly, it doesn’t get much better than that.

“We’re looking forward to it and hopefully we can take something.”