Children also wrote to praise Rashford him for his courage and for his free-school-meal campaigning, which led to several government U-turns on child food poverty. Another fan, a six-year-old from Newcastle, sent Rashford his love and wrote: “Don’t listen to nasty bullys.” “I have sent you my (trophy) to cheer you up,” he added. Rashford and teammates Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho were racially abused on social media, after they failed to score their spot-kicks in the penalty shoot-out against Italy on Sunday. Within hours of the defeat, a mural of Rashford was defaced in his home town of Manchester, with police treating it as a racist incident.