Manchester United duo Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Maguire were the most abused players on Twitter last season, according to a new report published Tuesday.
The report, carried out by The Alan Turing Institute and Ofcom and using a new machine-learning technology, analyzed 2.3m messages directed at Premier League players over the first five months of the 2021-22 season.
It found 60,000 posts deemed abusive, with 68% of players in the top flight receiving at least one message in that period.
One in 14 players received abusive tweets every day, according to the report, with half of all abusive messages being directed at 12 players who received on average 15 per day.
Ronaldo received 12,520 abusive tweets while Maguire had 8,954 and Marcus Rashford, also of United, had the third-highest total with 2,557.
Eight United players featured in the top 10.
Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane, England's captain, and Manchester City's Jack Grealish, were the only non-United footballers in the top 10.