After months of anticipation, the new season of the Premier League is finally set to begin this weekend, with Crystal Palace kicking things off against Arsenal on 5 August.
Ahead of the new season, Ofcom has revealed the shocking scale of personal attacks suffered by footballers every day on Twitter.
According to Ofcom's latest report, Premier League footballers received 60,000 abusive Twitter messages in the first half of last season.
Half of those tweets were directed at just 12 players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Maguire, and Marcus Rashford.