Brendan Rodgers tells Celtic fans what REALLY got his back up as Tierney chant wasn't only crime in boss' eyes

There are times when Brendan Rodgers just wants to get something off his chest.

This was one of them. It was clear the Celtic manager was pleased to get an immediate response from his team after the shock stinker thrown in at Ibrox a few days previous. But it was also obvious there was something else eating at the boss aside from that uncharacteristic display in the defeat to the old foes.

His players might have got a bit of flak from their gaffer in the Ibrox dressing room. It was the supporters who were in for a strongly worded telling off though. Rodgers was seething at the singing about former hero Kieran Tierney towards the end of the 3-0 stroll against St Mirren. But it was some of the groans when it was still 0-0 after half an hour that really got his back up.

Rodgers said: “I have a big respect for this group of players, especially on a day like today, because when it was 0-0 for the first 20 minutes, and when we'd make a backward pass the crowd would be onto the team. That cannot happen. One, if you know about football, and two, if you can understand it when teams come here, they're going to make it really difficult.

“You can't turn up every single week with three, four an hour in 20 minutes. Teams are well organised, teams are well set up, you have to work the game.

“So sometimes you have to play a backward pass to change the point of attack. We make a backward pass, and then we go to the players, and that's why I was proud of the players. I don't need the cheers when it's 3-0, and the support when it's 3 or 4-0, or 5-0. This team needs it.

"It's just the amount of games that they're playing, and how we play. You only need to look at the facts and how this team plays to know they're an attacking team, a