Brendan Rodgers is used to being bashed and battered from time to time from media, fans and plenty of others. ‌

He’s grown a hide like a rhino after months of human shield duty for the Celtic board, fielding constant flank over transfer dithering. ‌

Rodgers has admitted plenty of times he’ll take the hits. Yet this one felt like a low blow. ‌

When the Irishman was asked if part of the Ibrox plan was to keep passing backwards and perhaps even playing for a draw, he looked like he’d been slapped across the chops.

Rodgers gave it the how-dare-you-stare and said: “No, there wasn't a plan to contain it, it's just the way the game worked.

“I don't think you go into a game as a Celtic manager and say pass the ball sideways or backwards. ‌

“There's never been a plan to be a defens

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