Gary Neville has leapt to the defence of Rachel Riley after the presenter revealed she had been forced to leave Sky Sports after abuse from online trolls.

The former Countdown presenter has decided to quit her role as co-anchor of Sky Sports' Friday Night Football programme after she received a torrent of abuse for comments she made about Tottenham's doomed title challenge.

The 31-year-old received what she describes as "hideous personal abuse online," after calling Tottenham's 1-0 defeat to West Ham, in which Mauricio Pochettino's men effectively conceded the title to Chelsea, "a proper bottle job."