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Stephen Robinson has hit out a section of Celtic fans who cheered Motherwell's Carl McHugh being stretchered off the Parkhead pitch.

McHugh came off worse in an aerial collision with Odsonne Edouard and the Well gaffer revealed he was knocked out cold.

He said most of the home support respectfully applauded the Irishman as he was carried away but slammed a minority of supporters for their reaction.

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Celtic emerged 4-1 winners on a bad-tempered afternoon where the Steelmen scored a hugely controversial goal just before McHugh was injured.

The home fans inside Parkhead were furious when Motherwell made it 2-1 when they refused to give Celtic the ball back after an injury and James Scott ran up the park to set up a goal instead.

In the wake of the goal sympathy for Well players was in short supply and footage shows a section of the home crowd chanting as McHugh is carried away by paramedics.

And Robinson told BBC Sportsound: "It's a little bit of a disaster for us, he's been knocked out cold again. He's on his way to hospital now to have his neck scanned, we're extremely worried.

"I have to say the vast majority of Celtic fans actually applauded him off, but there was a section of them cheering when he went off, which is poor.

"There'll be headlines written about young James Scott, but that's not right.

"We're really concerned about him, we've fingers crossed for some positive news but he won't play for the foreseeable future."

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Robinson admitted youngster Scott was in the wrong over his part in Motherwell's goal.

Celtic had put the ball out of play following an injury to Ryan Christie but the visitors opted to take the advantage from the resulting throw-in.

Scott broke free down the right as the Hoops waited for the ball to be returned to them and his shot was parried into the path of Gboly Ariyibi to slot home.

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers insisted Motherwell should then have allowed his side to walk the ball into the net.

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Robinson admits he had no idea how to react.

He added: "In truth I didn't know what to do. Listen, you've got a young boy starting his first game, 18 years of age, a great prospect, a real super, super boy.

"He's got caught up in the occasion. It shouldn't have happened, but it did.

"He'll recover from that, he's going to be a top, top footballer. It's not the way we wanted (to score). I'm not sure what you do after that, do you restart the game? I don't know.

I've said to Brendan, 'I don't know what to do now'.

"To be honest I didn't know what to do, I've never been involved in something like that, have you? Truthfully, there's no point in me lying, I was a wee bit embarrassed.

"The boy's made an error, he'll learn from it. It was a lively afternoon."