England defender Tyrone Mings believes racist trolls would lose interest if the abuse they posted was filtered to be less visible. Aston Villa centre-back Mings has discussed the issue of online abuse with West Ham forward Michail Antonio as part of The Shop Talk series sponsored by the Professional Footballers' Association. Mings believes trolls target players in the hope that their account handles are shared, in order to gain notoriety. He said: "When you filter (your social media accounts) better, and you stop people being able to see it as much, trolls will get bored - they just want to trigger you." "Why can you not have words that literally send an alert straight to Instagram, so you can't physically type that word into the platform?"

Source: Sky sports June 25, 2021 13:18 UTC