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Ronaldo and Maguire are players most abused on the web

Cristiano Ronaldo topped a record of the most abused Premier League footballers – with 8 of the top 10 Manchester United stars.

The Portuguese superstar, 37, acquired a staggering 12,520 vicious messages among August 13, 2021 and January 24, 2022.

That bundled a spike on August 27, the working day he completed his transfer to Previous Trafford.

Club captain Harry Maguire was second on 8,954 in the similar period of time.

Of people, a staggering 2,903 ended up despatched on November 7 right after Maguire apologised to enthusiasts following the 2- defeat to Manchester Town.

Marcus Rashford (2,557), Bruno Fernandes (2,464), Fred (1,924) and David De Gea (1,394) were being also in the leading ten – with departing midfielders Jesse Lingard (1,605) and Paul Pogba (1,446) seventh and ninth respectively.

Tottenham’s Harry Kane (2,127) and Jack Grealish (1,538) of Manchester Town ended up the only two not taking part in for the Red Devils during that time period to make the record of insulted stars – which consists of 6 England internationals.

In whole, the BBC state Ofcom recorded 600,000 of 2.3million tweets in the to start with 5 months of final year – with seven in ten leading-flight gamers affected.

Seven per cent of footballers been given abuse every single working day when just two for each cent of the players on the conclude of half of the overall offence. Nonetheless, the Alan Turing Institute – the UK’s nationwide institute for details science and artificial intelligence – observed the greater part of soccer admirers used social media responsibly.