Phil Neville highlights vile abuse sent to Karen Carney on Instagram

‘I wish you cancer and leukemia’: Phil Neville highlights vile abuse sent to England women star Karen Carney on Instagram

  • Carney was subjected to disgusting abuse via Instagram on Wednesday night
  • User ‘dzo09’ sent a series of messages directly to England international Carney
  • One read ‘I wish you cancer and leukemia’ while another said ‘I hope someone will rape you to death’
  • Lionesses manager Phil Neville shared the post and labelled it ‘disgraceful’
  • Carney scored Chelsea’s winning goal as they beat Fiorentina on Wednesday 

England international Karen Carney has shared a series of vile messages sent to her on Instagram in which someone ‘wishes her cancer and leukemia’ and ‘hopes someone rapes her to death.’

Carney shared the messages, sent to her directly via the photo sharing website, on her Instagram Stories and the post was also highlighted by Lionesses manager Phil Neville.

The first of the messages, sent by user ‘dzo09’ at 9.22pm on Wednesday evening, read: ‘How many chances you need to score in second half stupid b******’

England star Karen Carney has shared vile messages sent to her via Instagram in which someone ‘wishes her cancer and leukemia’ and ‘hopes someone will rape you to death’

Carney’s post was shared by England manager Phil Neville, who called it ‘absolutely disgraceful’ and called on Instagram to do something about the abuse

Carney in action for Chelsea in their Women’s Champions League win over Fiorentina on Wednesday evening – Carney scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot


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It was then followed by ‘I wish you cancer and leukemia’ then ‘and I hope someone will rape you to death.’

The first post appears to relate to Wednesday night’s match between Chelsea and Fiorentina in the Women’s Champions League last-16, first leg.

Carney scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot in the eighth minute at Kingsmeadow but Chelsea were unable to add to their lead ahead of the return in Italy on October 31.

Carney, 31, capped 133 times for England, shared the messages and wrote ‘Wow some people…’

Lionesses manager Phil Neville strongly condemned the abuse sent to one of his players

The abuse came from Instagram user ‘dzo09’ who has the name Nikola Nikolic 

Neville then shared a screenshot of the posts with his 447,000 Instagram followers, writing: ‘A message sent to one of my @lionesses players last night absolutely disgraceful – @instagram are you going to do something about it!!!!!’

Instagram user ‘dzo09’ is a private account but features the name Nikola Nikolic.

Comments on Neville’s post condemned the abuse. One write: ‘Shameful to say the least… he must have never experienced cancer… the word alone sends a shiver down my spine.’

Another posted: ‘What’s wrong with people! Instagram needs to get on top of things like this, it’s disgusting.’

One wrote: ‘Always brave behind a keyboard. Disgraceful human.’  

Carney converts from the penalty spot as Chelsea gained a slender lead to take to Italy

The first abusive post appeared to blame Carney and her team-mates for missing chances

Carney is far from the first England international to be subjected to offensive comments on their social media posts.

Goalkeeper Karen Bardsley has previously spoken on the subject of trolling: ‘We do get a lot of sexist tweets and comments, things about a woman’s place being in the kitchen, not on the pitch.

‘The other day I saw a picture of Toni Duggan celebrating and there were a bunch of unnecessary comments underneath insinuating some nasty things.

‘It was just like, really? You can’t just appreciate that she is celebrating a goal?

‘But it’s just keyboard warriors who have nothing better to do than comment on pictures – that’s something we’ve had to battle.’  

England star Toni Duggan has also been the target of sexist abuse on social media 

A 2016 study by Women In Football found that sexist within the game was increasing, with 15 per cent of women in football victims of sexual harassment and 19 per cent barred from certain areas on account of their gender.

The survey also revealed that almost half of respondents had been victims of sexism, while two-thirds had experienced sexist banter or jokes in the workplace.

‘Sexist incidents occur daily due to the culture of the environment we work in,’ the organisation concluded, adding ‘there are far too many sexist incidents to describe. It’s endemic.’  

Assistant referee Sian Massey-Ellis was the victim of a sexist outburst by Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys and pundit Andy Gray back in January 2011.

Keys and Gray were picked up by a microphone claiming that women don’t understand the offside rule after noticing Massey-Ellis was assistant referee in a Premier League match between Wolves and Liverpool.

Top-flight assistant referee Sian Massey-Ellis was the victim of sexist comments by Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray back in 2011

Both were sacked by Sky but now work in similar roles for the Qatari network beIN Sports.

Massey-Ellis later said: ‘When Richard rang to apologise on behalf of both of them and he said ‘I’m sorry’, I just said ‘For me, I thought you would know better’.

‘In their position, they should have known that just to be on that pitch I must have gone through so much.

‘So much scrutiny, so much training, so many challenges, so much game pressure. I’m not there without being tried and tested over many years.’  

The Football Association haven’t helped themselves with two ill-advised tweets in relation to the Lionesses team in recent years.

After returning from the 2015 World Cup having finished third, a post that read ‘Our #Lionesses go back to being mothers, partners and daughters today, but they have taken on another title – heroes.’

The post was denounced as ‘sexist’ and ‘patronising’ by supporters.

The FA was again lambasted when they posted a photograph of the team lining up ahead of their international friendly with Australia last week with the comment: ‘Scrub up well, don’t they?’ 

The official Lionesses account posted this ahead of England’s game with Australia last week


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