‘Tears and frustration’ for Saints after defeat
Hearts player said. “There’s no two ways about it, he deserves it. No matter what’s gone in his life, he deserves it - he’s a football man now.
“This is his life. So he more than deserves it for where he’s taken this club, what he’s done for me. For anyone to take that away from him would be very, very, very harsh.”
Meanwhile, beaten St Mirren manager Jim Goodwin said: "We are all bitterly disappointed and, as you can imagine, the guys are extremely low in the dressing room.
"There's a few boys lying on the floor, there's been tears and real frustration at how the game panned out. We all feel as if it's a missed opportunity.
"I think the players can be proud of what they put into that second half, we threw absolutely everything at Livingston.
"We had a couple of halfchances, (Conor) Mccarthy has had one cleared off the line, another couple of little opportunities, but in fairness to Livingston, I thought they defended brilliantly."
Saints also had two penalty claims, one when Joe Shaughnessy was caught late by Nicky Devlin's attempted clearance, and a second-half talking point when Jon Obika was booked for going down under pressure from Julien Serrano.
"I don't think the one in the second half was a penalty, having watched it back," Goodwin said.
"I think the referee made the right call there.
"But we definitely should have had a penalty in the first half. Joe Shaughnessy clearly gets a volley in the back of his leg.”