The Professional Footballers Association has attacked Twitter for its failure to deal with abusive posts aimed at players.
Sportsmail revealed on Thursday how the Government were open to taking legal action against social media companies amid huge concerns from clubs that firms such as Twitter and Instagram are actively preventing online abusers from being prosecuted.
And the apparent reluctance from Twitter to react appropriately to the shocking rise in discriminatory abuse directed at footballers was further exposed by the players union on Thursday night following the release of a new study.
Following a study of online abuse in the Premier League across Project Restart, the PFA compiled a list of 56 racist and discriminatory tweets, directed at the players such as Raheem Sterling and Wilfried Zaha, posted during the study period that remained live on the platform.