England players were bombarded with 12,500 hate messages on social media during Euro 2020, despite this being the country’s most successful tournament for 55 years, Sportsmail can reveal.
The vile abuse was aimed directly at players, through Twitter and Instagram, and contains comments about race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, as well as extreme personal abuse and threats of harm, including to family members.
The analysis from Crisp, a company that works with top flight football clubs across Europe and the Premier League, included the whole England squad and indicates the extent of the problem of online abuse now facing players.