Banned: A Social Media Trial

A social media trial can break you. There were 100,000 tweets of abuse for days on end, all premised on a set of untruths pushed by someone hugely powerful because he had played for the national team. Against the entitled, I never stood a chance. The online trial forced me and the family to draw on every last bit of inner strength, and yet left permanent scars.

Having served the ban, I wanted closure in the form of this book. But no one knows better that there will never be a full stop. I ...