Liverpool star Mario Balotelli racially abused on Twitter after mocking Manchester United's 5-3 defeat at Leicester
Police are investigating after hate-filled social media fans viciously attacked the Liverpool and Italy striker after he goaded the Red Devils this afternoon Twitter / Action Mario Balotelli was racially abused on Twitter today after he mocked Manchester United's 5-3 defeat at Leicester City. Hate-filled social media users targeted the Liverpool and Italy striker after he goaded the Red Devils fans with a tweet which simply read: 'Man utd ... LOL.' One vile tweeter, known only as iMonko, wrote: "Monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey." Another, using the Twitter handle Maroc, tweeted: "You're a f*****g monkey. Oo Oo ah ah." And one particularly disgusting tirade read: "@F**k you Mario you f*****g n****r. Go eat some bananas and get ebola you dirty monkey." Many others came to Balotelli's defence and some screengrabbed and re-tweeted some of the vile messages, and forwarded them on to police.