Manchester United players make up eight of the top 10 most abused players on Twitter, a new report has revealed, with strikers Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcus Rashford, together with club captain Harry Maguire, receiving the most anti-social messages.
Around 68 per cent of Premier League footballers were subjected to abuse on Twitter during the first half of last season, according to the Ofcom report.
The regulator teamed up with The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, to analyse more than 2.3 million tweets sent to top-flight players during the first five months of the 2021-22 campaign - and found that almost 60,000 were abusive.
