• Her brother Reece James was targeted just over a week ago
  • ‘Too much talk … and nothing ever gets done,’ she writes

Manchester United’s Lauren James has become the latest player to be sent racist abuse on social media. The forward was targeted just over a week after her brother Reece James, who plays for Chelsea.

On Saturday Axel Tuanzebe, of United’s men’s team, received racist messages online for the second time in less than a fortnight. His clubmates Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial, West Brom’s Romaine Sawyers and Southampton’s Alex Jankewitz are also known to have been targeted during that period.

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