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Cristiano Ronaldo topped a list of the most abused Premier League footballers – with EIGHT of the top ten Manchester United stars.
The Portuguese superstar, 37, received a staggering 12,520 vicious messages between August 13, 2021 and January 24, 2022.
That included a spike on August 27, the day he completed his transfer to Old Trafford.
Club captain Harry Maguire was second on 8,954 in the same period.
Of those, a staggering 2,903 were sent on November 7 after Maguire apologised to fans following the 2-0 defeat to Manchester City.
Marcus Rashford (2,557), Bruno Fernandes (2,464), Fred (1,924) and David De Gea (1,394) were also in the top 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 City were the only two not playing for the Red Devils during that period to make the list of insulted stars – which includes six England internationals.
In total, the BBC state Ofcom recorded 600,000 of 2.3million tweets in the first five months of last season – with seven in ten top-flight players affected.
Seven per cent of footballers received abuse every day while just two per cent of the players on the end of half of the total offence. However, the Alan Turing Institute – the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence – found the majority of football fans used social media responsibly.
