Mike Dean: Notifies Police over death threats

[rogerpbackinMidEastUS]

I've not heard of Ivan Tony before I read this thread.
He's sure had some clubs before arriving at Brentford

[RaySmith]

For me, there are two things at play.

1 Social media definitely enables this sort of thing in way that wasn't available in the past, with  blokes venting to their mates in the pub after a game, when noone else would hear it  apart from said mates, and maybe a view  bystanders.
Then everyone would go home and sleep it off, and the comments forgotten, or only half remembered by the people concerned.

2 Indicative of a level of  division, lack of respect and  abuse in society, that didn't exist before.
The internet and social media just enables this, i a way that wasn't available before.
Also, its untrue that people can't be anonymous on social media.

It's probably the  saddest, most inadequate  ones who get caught, while others, more astute, have ways of covering their tracks.

Though Ian Wright and other players have said, that social media  companies don't do enough to catch perpetrators.