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Aidan Smith

Watch hilarious moment Shaun Rooney celebrates Nick Walsh booking for shirt off antics after scoring for St Johnstone

Watch hilarious moment Shaun Rooney celebrates Nick Walsh booking for shirt off antics after scoring for St Johnstone

SHAUN ROONEY loves scoring in big games for St Johnstone and yesterday was no different.

The towering defender scored the fourth as Saints thumped Inverness to ensure their Premiership status next term.

Stevie May, Cammy MacPherson and Callum Hendry all got on the scoresheet before Rooney chipped in with one of his own to round off a comprehensive victory.

The full-back celebrated by ripping his shirt off and running the length of the East Stand at McDiarmid Park.

As a result referee Nick Walsh booked Rooney and hilarious footage from the stands has shown the defender CELEBRATING the caution.

The Perth support hailed the man who scored in both cup finals last term by singing his name from the terraces. 

St Johnstone manager Callum Davidson expressed his relief after a difficult second season in charge ended with a 4-0 win over Inverness to seal top-flight survival.

“It is relief,” said Davidson, who won the Scottish Cup and League Cup in his debut campaign as a manager. “It’s been a hard, hard graft since November.

“I think we struggled, then we got players in, we fought, we battled. Some of the performances weren’t good. But we got there in the end and we’re still in the Premiership.”

Davidson was without nine players including Jamie McCart and lost Glenn Middleton to a hamstring injury at half-time.

“First half we were garbage,” he said. “I can’t repeat what I said at half-time.

“I thought we’d played it too slowly first half and we were too obvious and too slow with the balls played forward. We had to be quicker and set a tempo second half.

“Goals change games…and it changed it for us.”

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