Andy Robertson believes more needs to be done by social media platforms to put a stop to online abuse.
The Liverpool left-back recently teamed up with EE as part of their Hope United campaign in response to sexist messages being shared on social media towards those within the Women's game.
No stranger to being targeted on Twitter, the 28-year-old felt the need to step away from the popular site after conceding a penalty in a 2-0 Champions League defeat to Napoli in 2019 led to an influx of negativity.
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Reflecting on his decision to make this decision, he told the Athletic : “I wanted to delete Twitter. I didn’t want to deactivate it but I ended up deactivating and causing this huge drama, which obviously was a disaster for me. But you know, at the time, I felt there was far too much negativity on Twitter. I still believe Twitter can be more negative than positive.
“After the Napoli game, there was obviously a lot of hate on there. People jumped on it. That’s part and parcel of football, but why is that? Why is that accepted?
“I don’t mind if we make mistakes and people say, ‘Ah, you cost us the game’. But when people start calling your personality out or wanting you to have a career-ending injury or start saying things about family members – which some of the lads have had before — that’s not OK."
Expanding on the changes he would like to see take place, the Scot added: "First of all, we can support women. That’s why Hope United is so good. It’s all of us in this together as effectively one team and we all try to support each other. But we can also speak out on it. If we hear it from another man or we hear it from anyone else, we can call them out on it. We need to call people out on it. We need to call the racists out, the homophobes out and those who are being sexist online need to be called out.”
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