A training ground clip went viral this week of Harry Maguire stopping the ball inside the circle to give the player in the middle a break. People have used this clip to throw abuse at the Manchester United captain. Mings described it as “ridiculous”.

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Speaking to talkSPORT, he said: “We got to about 45 passes and he stopped the ball and I can only presume, there’s no other reason to stop the ball at that point, it was to give the people in the middle a breather.

“Once you get to 20 passes you are in for another one, so the two that were in there anyway were going to be in for another two when it got to 42, 43.

“He’s actually giving them a bit of a breather to say ‘that’s enough, let’s start again’.

“So to take a negative spin on that just shows people don’t always know what is going on and don’t quite understand the full context of the video.

“But for social media these days the truth is sometimes far less exciting than making something up or sending something viral.”

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