Manchester United defender Harry Maguire has blocked a fan on Twitter after he exposed that the star had seemingly lied about a 5km run he claimed to have done.

With the Premier League on hold and social distancing and a nationwide lockdown in place to slow the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease, footballers and regular people have taken to running regularly in order to keep fit.

Maguire posted a screenshot from the Strava app of a run on Sunday with the short comment: "Park run" and then a follow up: "Zero calories burnt too... not many can do that," with a laughing emoji.

But one eagle-eyed follower spotted that the time and distance data was identical to a run that former Leicester star had posted up two weeks previously.

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After being questioning over the perplexing similarity in between the two runs which took place in the same park, Maguire blocked the account.

It comes after Joey Barton accused Chelsea's Ross Barkley of faking his astonishing 5 time, which was only a few minutes slower than Kenenisa Bekele's 5k world record of 12 minutes 37 seconds.

The Fleetwood Town manager also fired shots at his former Manchester City team-mate Trevor Sinclair over a 10km time he posted,

"Don’t worry @trevor8sinclair your in good company," Barton tweeted.

Maguire blocked the Twitter account that 'exposed' him

"@RBarkley8 and @ChelseaFC have been posting fake scores for 5k’s this week as well.

"Just remember before you start, ELAPSED TIME."

Sinclair defended himself, claiming that training with his sons during coronavirus lockdown had boosted his fitness.

Maguire, meanwhile, has defiantly stated that Manchester United are gunning for the Premier League title, and won't be satisfied with Champions League qualification next season.

"I can see where we're heading and the style he [Ole Gunnar solskjaer] wants to implement on the team," he told Sky Sports.

"Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of aspects we need to improve to get to the top of where we want to be. We don't want to be challenging for this Champions League spot, we want to be challenging for titles.

"We know there's still a lot of improvement to get there, but we're on the right track and I'm sure eventually we will get there."