Marcus Rashford says criticism has ‘a tone you don’t get with all footballers’

England forward wants naysayers to ‘have a bit more humanity’.

HITS BACK: Marcus Rashford has written a first-person article for the Players’ Tribune website. Pic: Adam Davy/PA Wire.

Marcus Rashford has suggested he is judged more harshly than some other footballers and said there is “a tone” to media reporting of both his perceived attitude at Manchester United and off-the-field lifestyle.

In a first-person piece for the Players’ Tribune website entitled ‘Who I really am’, the England forward claimed his campaigning against child food poverty during the Covid pandemic “seemed to rub certain people the wrong way.”