Wayne Rooney was sent off for foul and abusive language after Blackburn Rovers' equaliser.

The Plymouth Argyle boss could not take post-match press duties after he was dismissed following Joe Rankin-Costello's equaliser. The former Manchester United striker was seen apologising to fans behind the dugout before James Linington sent hIm off.

Rooney was back on the pitch at full-time celebrating Morgan Whittaker's late goal with his players. It appears he was furious that a foul on Ryan Hardie wasn't awarded in the build-up to Rovers' goal.

"He's still passionate. You all watched him play for many years and you know that passion is what drives him," assistant head coach, Pete Shuttleworth, said.

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"He has been brilliant down here because I have seen him like that, he has still got passion on the touchline.

"He likes to be calm and calculated at times as well and see the game, and that's his management style, but you are never going to take that out of Wayne.

"We were disappointed there wasn't a foul given on Ryan Hardie, we were all disappointed. We saw that as a foul and Wayne reacted to that with passion. I don't know what the exact sending-off was for or what they are going to credit it to.

"If we have offended anyone there at that point we apologise. We are quite a nice bench really. We speak to officials in the right way most of the time but that really angered us.

"Probably the frustration that we hadn't killed the game by then but also the fact we were convinced it was a foul and it should have been given.

"You kind of saw your hard work maybe going out the window at that point. We are all passionate. You all know about Wayne and how he has been in his whole career. 

"Myself, Kevin Nancekivell, who would do anything for this football club, we were all quite angry at that decision because we were desperate to win that game before the international break and get the result we deserved today.

"I will probably go in and speak to the fourth (official, Jacob Miles) now and apologise for any of our actions that he thought were disrespectful, but passion sometimes overspills."