Man United's Ashley Young has revealed to Soccer AM's Tubes that he doesn't think he actually ate bird poo, but admits that he doesn't know what it was.

Young was referring to the disturbing incident that took place in United's opening game of the Premier League season against Swansea.

Video footage showed that, while waiting for a free-kick to be taken, a bird - a pigeon being the most likely felon - defecated directly in to the Young's mouth.

But in an interview with Tubes - Soccer AM's Jeremy Paxman - the 29-year-old has confessed that he doesn't believe it was bird poo and is still focused on finding out the true culprit.

When asked 'what does bird poo taste like?', Young said: "I couldn't tell you. I need to put it out there, I don't actually know. I don't know what happened.

"You would have seen a reaction from me. I've seen the video about 100 times. I don't know what it was. I need to get to the bottom of it."

Young also spoke of the uncomfortable backlash he received from his Manchester United teammates after the unfortunate episode.

"After it actually happened - I don't know who it was and I need to get to the bottom of this as well - above my locker there was a pigeon put up," he added.

"I walked in and thought 'oh no'. And that was it, everyone started taking pictures of it. Everyone think it actually happened. I don't know, I couldn't tell you."

To hear more from Ashley Young, including what's on his changing room playlist and whether Louis van Gaal has any bants watch the video above.