Rodgers questions St Mirren officiating

In the 37th minute, the Frenchman was told to leave the field after referee Andrew Dallas showed him a second yellow for his challenge on Saints' Stephen McGinn. 

After what was a disappointing result for the 'Bhoys', Rodgers was asked how he felt the officials had perfomed.

The Northern Irishman responded: “Not very good, to be honest.

“I never like to focus too much on the referees but for both teams I didn’t think any of the four officials were very good at all.

“I don’t know if it’s a mark of all the attention that’s around them at the moment. But there were lots of incidents he got wrong, and for St Mirren as well. The sending-off, for me, is not a second yellow card.

“If you watch it again, the first one is a booking and we take that. But before the second one there is an incident when Olivier makes contact with the ball and wins the ball, but the referee gives a free-kick against us.

“Then when you see it in the corner Olivier is running across to block the ball up the line and the St Mirren player is falling over as he plays it and at the same time Olivier slides but doesn’t have contact with the player.

“So from that – and it’s in the corner which makes it lively – then the referee falls for it and he gets a second yellow. For me it wasn’t a second yellow or a sending-off.

“Listen, it’s simple – I don’t think they were good.”