Motherwell vice-chairmain Derek Weir told BBC Scotland before kick-off that they were down to "two or three" candidates in their search for a new manager and Young is confident the team will recover from their mid-season slump.
Meanwhile, former Food Standards Agency manager John Young told the Sunday Times he had alerted the government in 2011 to the "debacle" of horse passports, which were supposed to stop the painkiller bute entering the food chain, but was ignored.