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" is partially right though. Cashly got nuff abuse and little of the plaudits despite being one of England's few world class players at the time and certainly at that point the most consistent one. He is the 6th most capped England international - up there with Rooney, Gerrard, Shilton, Beckham and Moore but despite being their equivalent (at least) in terms of talent and performances he got none of their plaudits. C. Ronaldo said that Cashley was his toughest opponent.
Cashly was literally top 3 globally in his position and all he got was abuse. And that abuse was largely because of who he was dating. She was glamorous, famous, hot, a pop star, a national sweetheart and every "Brexit's" dream girl so they hated that he was going out with her.
Leaving Arsenal and the Terry/Rio incidents didn't help but the abuse started way before that.