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Referees have been the centre of attention over the past few months as everybody thinks there's an agenda for or against somebody else.

But the last week has seen Scottish football dragged back in time with sectarianism rearing its ugly head after incidents involving Kris Boyd and Steve Clarke .

Both were victims of sectarian chanting aimed at them based on their affiliation (real or otherwise) with one half of the Old Firm.

However, only one seemed to cause widespread offence and spur the Scottish FA into some sort of action.

Now, before anyone wants to get into which side is worse than the other or all that garbage, let's make one thing absolutely clear.

There's no place for sectarianism in football. Nor racism, homophobia, or any other form of discrimination and while we're at it, let's leave the stuff about Northern Ireland in the past too.

But if we want to do something to actually combat it then we need to treat all issues equally.

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When Kris Boyd took to Instagram last week and slated the Celtic support for sectarian chanting and hitting him with a coin, you'd have been hard pressed to find any of the coverage highlighting the bigoted nature of it.

Fast forward a few days and Steve Clarke's complaints were met with banner headlines, statements from the SFA, the great and the good coming out to condemn the 'cancer' of Scottish football and treating the bigots with the contempt they deserve.

What's the difference? Is one side seen as fair game when it comes to sectarian chanting?

You can go back to the first Old Firm game of the season and hear thousands of Celtic fans calling Steven Gerrard a 'sad orange b******.'

It barely warranted mention in the days following.

When Kris Boyd was hit by a coin and was being subjected to the same ditty from the Celtic support, Sky's Andy Walker incredibly suggested that the former Rangers striker "loves it".

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Imagine just for a second that Kevin Thomson was to suggest on BT that Steve Clarke or Neil Lennon was 'loving' being called a 'Fenian b******.'

Or picture the uproar if the Union Bears were to show up at an Old Firm game with a banner proudly telling Celtic fans to 'know your place Fenian scum.'

We either want to eradicate ALL sectarianism or none of it. There's no middle ground to be taken here.

Whether it is anti-Protestant, anti-Catholic or anti any other group, it needs to be dealt with evenly rather than almost minimising it on one side.

As long as there's a blind eye turned to some sectarianism then it will always exist as a problem in Scottish football.

I'm sure some will just call this all 'whataboutery' and dismiss it but there's a genuine perception that there's little interest in stopping anti-Protestant sectarianism.

Dave King was right to issue an apology to Clarke for the chants aimed at the Killie boss on Wednesday night but until there's a genuine attempt made on all sides, we'll just keep going around in circles.