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Ashley Young has lifted the lid on a bizarre incident that saw the circulation of a video that appeared to show bird excrement hitting him in the mouth.

The video appeared during United's opening day defeat to Swansea. Young insists it didn't happen, although he admits he's since been the butt or one or two dressing room jokes.

Asked about the incident by Sky Sports, 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.

"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.

"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."