How much pressure does social media put on footballer?

Modern Football and Social Media

Social media has a massive affect on everyone's day to day life.

Celebrities have it harder than most as they are in the public eye for most of their careers.

With football being the biggest sport in world, footballers are some of the most followed people on social media, with Cristiano Ronaldo having over 75 million followers on Twitter.

Yorkshire football league sides combined have a respectable 2.2 million followers, and if you added every follow the players individually have, that number would almost certainly rise to over 20 million!

All eyes seem to be on footballers, at all levels, and this adds pressure on them.

Matthew Nixon is a sports journalist in North Yorkshire and he gave his opinion on this: