Liverpool player is the most abused Premier League player on social media

According to a new report, Mario Balotelli is the most abused English Premier League player.

Anti-racism campaigners, Kick It Out teamed up with Tempero and Brandwatch to reveal a detail finds on discriminations and abuses online.

According to their research, an abusive message is directed at a Premier League club or one of their players every 2.6 minutes with a total of 134,400 posted on Twitter, Facebook, forums or blogs between August 2014 and March 2015.

Liverpool striker Balotelli received the most abuse with more than 8,000 discriminatory messages directed at him with  Arsenal striker, Danny Welbeck a distant second with about 1,700 discriminatory messages directed at him.

Another Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is third after receiving about 1,600 discriminatory messages.

In each of these attacks on these players, about 50% were racist, while more than 60% of the messages directed at Sturridge are related to sexual orientation.

In the report by Kick It Out, the English Premier League club which is most abuse on social media is Chelsea.

The league leaders Chelsea received about 20,000 abusive messages with Liverpool 19,000, Arsenal 12,000 and Manchester United and City 11,000.

Almost a third of the abusive posts were racist, a quarter were based on gender and just under a fifth about sexual orientation.

A further 11 per cent were about disability, nine per cent anti-semitism, five per cent islamophobia, two per cent about age and one per cent regarding gender reassignment.