Jordan Henderson to switch off his social media accounts

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Trent Alexander-Arnold

,

Naby Keita

, and

Sadio Mane

have been sent racist abuse on social media following the club’s 3-1 loss to

in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final last week.

Henderson

has given control of his social media accounts to the Cybersmile Foundation, an anti-cyberbullying charity, but he is now considering closing his social media accounts.

Writing in the match program ahead of the second leg against Real at Anfield, Henderson said:

"I'm sick of seeing people I know, and people I don't know, having to put up with the kind of abuse that turns my stomach.

"It has to stop and anyone who has a shred of decency has to play their part in making it stop.

"I didn't [hand over the accounts to Cybersmile] lightly - I thought about it a lot and at one stage I was considering switching off all of my social media accounts in protest.

"I still have that option and I applaud those, like Thierry Henry, who have taken the ultimate step as far as this issue is concerned.

"My mind was already made up before we played away to Real Madrid last week, but everything that followed that game confirmed what I already knew - that taking a stand was no longer optional.

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