As part of our ongoing No Room For Racism initiative, Andros Townsend has spoken about seeing at first hand the impact online abuse has had on his team-mates.
The Everton winger says he rises above the comments but knows colleagues in the dressing room who have found them hard to deal with.
"I don't let it affect me and words can never hurt me," Townsend says. "But I have had team-mates in the past who have taken offence to comments online, to the extent where it has affected them before a game.
