Well, what a night of Premiership action. Rangers started the night top of the league but Aberdeen defender Scott McKenna's goal consigned them to defeat at Ibrox as both sides were reduced to 10 men.

Celtic conceded a late, late goal at Fir Park as Motherwell earned a share of the spoils.

It meant that a Greg Stewart-inspired Kilmarnock moved top of the Premiership with a win at home to Livingston.

What else happened? Kenny Miller fired a hat-trick as Dundee crushed Hamilton; Adam Hammill scored a contender for goal of any season [watch Sportscene tonight] in a 2-2 draw with Hibs at Easter Road.

And there was another controversial penalty at McDiarmid Park as St Johnstone drew with Hearts.

Breathless stuff! Thanks for your company, keep across our website for further reaction. And watch Sportscene later at 00:50, BBC One Scotland. Cheers.

St Mirren boss Oran Kearney tells BBC Scotland he's a little "disappointed" his team couldn't claim all three points at Easter Road.

He also had some understated praise for Adam Hammill, whose 50-yard wonder-goal fired the Paisley side ahead.

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"The first HIbs goal, Kyle Magennis goes down injured and I know he's maybe half-on, half-off the pitch, but we're down to 10 men. Some of our guys were more concerned with Kyle than seeing the ball out and then seeing where Kyle's at," Kearney said.

"Adam Hammill has the vision and is happy to try that. It sat up nicely for him, but the execution is top-drawer. It's one thing seeing it and another to execute it - it's a top finish."

Livingston manager Gary Holt accept responsibility for his side's defeat by new Premiership leaders Kilmarnock.

"I picked the team to give boys a chance and I’ll take it on the chin," he told BBC Scotland.

"We never got going and lost a really poor goal from a set play, the guy gets a free run which isn’t good. And the second comes from our free kick, how it suddenly ends up in our net is something that’s not unacceptable.

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"By then the horse has bolted and there was no point in trying to get back into it, in fairness Kilmarnock probably took their foot off the gas a bit and we got a foothold but didn’t really trouble the keeper and I feel for him, we lost two goals which should’ve been dealt with from the set play and counter-attack.

"We’ve got another game Saturday - they can lick their wounds tonight, put it to bed tomorrow and we'll go again."

St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright is adamant Hearts were lucky to get a draw against his side.

"We should have won the game," he tells BBC Scotland. "It's quite obvious we should have won the game, it's two points dropped. We totally dominated the game and they barely left a glove on us from open play.

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"Decisions go for you and against you. But Craig [Levein] has had a lot to say about referees recently, but this is the game where they'll be happy to get a point because they were second best all night.

"The character of the players showed tonight and the quality of the play was good."

Hat-trick hero Kenny Miller has been telling BBC Scotland of his relief at Dundee's victory, just their second of the season.

"It was needed,I talked yesterday about it being a must win for us so we knew we needed to put in a performance," he said.

"Since the manager came in we're seeing a better level of performance, a better work ethic and a better understanding of what he wants. The appetite to work hard for each other, to get forward, to get back and defend, it's the team moving together.

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"We've got a tough run of fixtures coming up now but if we hit the levels we have hit and did tonight we can be a match for teams."

Hibernian assistant coach Garry Parker says his players got the hairdryer treatment after tonight's draw with St Mirren.

That's seven games and nearly two months without victory for the Easter Road men.

"No disrespect to St Mirren, we're at home, we should be beating them," Parker told BBC Scotland.

"We're just not playing. We're playing without a couple of players that were out there tonight not doing their jobs, not performing and letting us down.

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"I'm not going to name names, they know themselves they are not contributing. So you're playing with seven, eight men. You can't do it.

"They've just had a roasting and rightly so. We've got to think of our jobs as well the way things are going. It hurts. I'm hurting. It's just not acceptable.

"Tonight, we went attacking with two wide men and for some reason, we're not doing it, they're not doing what they're asked."

Kilmarnock manager Steve Clarke: "It [topping the table] doesn’t mean anything does it? It’s only December. Nice for the supporters, they can go to their work tomorrow happy. For us it’s back to business tomorrow for a nice easy one on Saturday at Celtic Park.

"It wasn’t a classic, so I’ll probably go home and watch the Motherwell - Celtic game instead and have an early look before the weekend - the life of a football manager, eh!"

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On goal scorer Greg Stewart: "He’s a top player and been really good for us since he came here, that little link between midfield and the forwards and scored a few goals as well and shows a good partnership with Brophy as well.

"He probably took a gamble coming back to Scottish football but if works out well for Greg and works out well for Kilmarnock then everyone can be happy."

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Hearts manager Craig Levein after Matty Kennedy's late penalty denied Hearts three points against St Johnstone.

Levein tells BBC Scotland: "I've only seen it [the penalty] from three angles and, well, I'll keep my counsel on it because I'll let the media decide whether they think it's a penalty or not. Me pointing out there's been errors made doesn't make any difference.

"I thought we built on our performance on Sunday. This is a hard place to come, they're in smashing form just now, and we were the better side. To lose a goal in that way again feels very sore.

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"The reason I'm not saying too much is sometimes your thoughts go down a road and I don't want to go down that road. It's unsavoury so I don't want to speak about it.

"We're having a tough time. I can only compliment the players for their efforts despite difficult circumstances. But I'm getting fed up with this whole thing."

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers: "It's frustrating, disappointing. It was definitely two points dropped. We still should've won the game but we didn't play well.

"Even if we had won the game 1-0, I wouldn't have been overly happy with how we played.

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"Very broken in the first half - nothing to do with the changes, just individually, in how we were working.

"We didn't get our fluency and our positioning wasn't good..."

Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson: "I think it's a deserved point. When you play against Celtic you've got to be disciplined and the players did what we tried to do to the letter.

"I think we deserved it and put pressure on them towards the end. We were limited in terms of what we could do in terms of our substitutions and people going off injured.

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"It's credit to the boys - we deserved a point and now we have to try to get that consistency into all of our performances."

Aberdeen defender Scott McKenna scored the only goal of the game at Ibrox as both sides were reduced to 10 men.

Sam Cosgrove was dismissed in the first half, while Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos saw red after the break.

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David Scott: #wearekille Absolutely brilliant! ktid

Peter Houston
Former Scotland assistant manager on BBC Sportsound

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Tom English
BBC Scotland's chief sports writer

Quiet night in the Premiership.

Kenny Crawford
BBC Sport Scotland at Rugby Park

The title challenge of Hearts has faltered of late, but Kilmarnock are stepping up in fantastic fashion to ensure there’s other teams giving Celtic something to think about.

Yes, Killie are top of the league!

Saturday’s match? Celtic v Kilmarnock...

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Steve Clarke's Kilmarnock look down on the rest of the Premiership tonight, as their win at home to Livingston, and the results at Ibrox and Fir Park, means they are a point clear at the top of the table.