Manchester United’s Harry Maguire and Cristiano Ronaldo the most abused Premier League football players: Reports
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According to a survey, Harry Maguire of Manchester United and Cristiano Ronaldo are the two Premier League footballers who receive the most trolling on Twitter.
In the first half of last season, according to a survey by the Alan Turing Institute and Ofcom, Maguire received 8,954 nasty tweets, roughly 6,400 more than the next player on the list, Marcus Rashford, while Ronaldo received 12,520.
Ronaldo, Maguire, Rashford, Bruno Fernandes, Fred, Jesse Lingard, Paul Pogba, and David De Gea were all members of United last season when they finished sixth in the league and missed out on the Champions League. They were also eight of the ten players that faced the harshest backlash.
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Maguire have been subject to online hatred:
Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur, who ranks fifth on the list with 2,127 hateful tweets thrown at him, and Jack Grealish, who joined Manchester City in a British-record £100 million move last year and received 1,538 hateful posts, are the other two players in the top 10.
The study, which examines the level of hostility football players experience on social media, discovered there was a boom in activity when Ronaldo transferred from Juventus to United in August of last year and when Maguire apologized following his team’s derby loss to City in November.
In contrast to Maguire, who has recently been booed by United and England supporters, Ronaldo hit the headlines this summer after filing a transfer request to depart Old Trafford. Maguire’s club manager, Erik ten Hag, claimed that the only way to silence his critics was to perform well.
“These findings shed light on a dark side to the beautiful game. Online abuse has no place in sport or in society at large, and stopping it calls for a collaborative effort.”, said Kevin Bakhurst, group director for broadcasting and online content at Ofcom.
Nearly 60,000 abusive tweets out of the 2.3 million that were analyzed for the study were identified. It was discovered that 7 out of 10 Premier League players had experienced internet abuse.
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