Marcus Rashford hit with ‘mountain’ of vile racist abuse after Man United’s Europa League final defeat

Marcus Rashford revealed he was hit with a torrent of vile racist abuse following Manchester United’s Europa League final loss to Villarreal last night.

The striker, who has spent the last year campaigning tirelessly to end child poverty and hunger, took to Twitter to say that he had been sent dozens of racist messages via his social media accounts.

He wrote: “At least 70 racial slurs on my social accounts counted so far.

“For those working to make me feel any worse than I already do, good luck trying.”

In a subsequent tweet, he revealed one of his abusers appeared to be a teacher.

The footballer said: “I’m more outraged that one of the abusers that left a mountain of monkey emojis in my DM is a maths teacher with an open profile. He teaches children!! And knows that he can freely racially abuse without consequence…”

Rashford, who scored his penalty in the shootout but received criticism for his overall performance, also shared a reply from one user who said of the racist abuse: “You deserve it man you are awful” – replying with a thumbs-up emoji.

Manchester United responded to the incident, tweeting: “Following the [Europa League] final, our players were subjected to disgraceful racist abuse.

“If you see any form of abuse or discrimination, act and report it.”