Manchester United star Marcus Rashford has spoken about his delight at securing nearly £20 million for charity.

The Red Devils star helped to raise the figure for schoolchildren who are in poverty in the UK.

It is a charity that will help ensure the children are well fed during the COVID-19 outbreak and beyond.

"Yeah, it's done a lot better than what we thought," Rashford admits in the latest UTD Podcast.

"It was a slow process at first and we set out to try and get to £100,000. A couple of days passed and we were way past that. A week passed, and the numbers just kept getting higher and higher.

"It got to the stage where we had a lot of donations, more than we expected, and we were actually struggling to deliver the food to people.

"So that's where the bigger companies like Tesco, Co-op, Asda have come in and helped us with deliveries and that side of things, and their own large donations as well. So yeah, it's definitely a big positive.

"I think it's just around £20 million now. It's a big number. At first, the donations were going kind of slow. I put a bit of money in myself, it was at like £50,000, £60,000 and then, I just remember two days later, it was at £140,000 and something.

"Then a few weeks after that, it was £6 million or £7 million when some of the bigger companies started coming in. Literally, just two or three days ago, it reached £20 million [in financial donations and the value of food donations]."