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Published 12:59 2 Oct 2022 BST
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Writing in his Daily Mail column, he said: "I knew nothing like the level of abuse Harry Maguire gets. It astonishes me, even though it seems to be part of the world we now live in.
"Some of it is dished out through social media, which is a world to be avoided at all costs for players. Maguire will go on there to apologise for a Manchester United performance and then get hammered for doing so.
"Maguire is at particular risk of the kind of pile-on we’re seeing because a failing Manchester United made him the most expensive central defender in the world and then made him their captain.
"So he becomes a lightning rod for all United’s ills. All the club’s failings are piled at his door. Ridiculous. I can’t remember a game United lost because of Harry Maguire alone."
Souness took aim at the online abuse in particular and labelled those critiquing the defender as "keyboard warriors."
"I particularly despise the keyboard warriors we have now," he added.
"Faceless pygmies who will write abuse about someone, knowing that they will never be confronted. Knowing no one will ever find out who they are and who is spouting all this vile hate."
Maguire has been ruled out of today's (Sunday October 2) Manchester derby through injury.
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