Football

"To all the young people who have received similar abuse, hold your heads up high and keep chasing the dream.”

"Our England team stood up for all of us - now we must stand up for them."

"True fans – of which there are so many – will help stamp out this mockery and abuse and will lift up our fallen stars."

"I'm Marcus Rashford, 23-year-old black man from Withington and Wythenshawe, South Manchester. If I have nothing else I have that."

"Those boys have done a brilliant job and we heal together as a team now and we are there for them."

"To honour Raheem Sterling and the success of the England football team since they adopted Marxism."

"This, this is our England, all of our England," said one Twitter user.

"And so it transpires that all this time the missing ingredient from English football was Marxism."

The England team take on Andriy Shevchenko’s Ukraine at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday night.