A football fan who racially abused England's Rashford, Sancho and Bukayo Saka after the Euro 2020 final has been sentenced to 10 weeks in jail.
Jonathon Best, 52, posted an 18-second video on Facebook in which he made a"grossly offensive" rant about the players following England's penalty shootout loss to Italy in July.
He was sentenced at Willesden Magistrates’ Court in London on Tuesday after previously pleading guilty to “sending by public communication network a grossly offensive or indecent or obscene or menacing message or matter”. “The words you used were antediluvian, vile, and offensive — they strike at the very nature of our civilised society and are corrosive,” said Brennan in sentencing him.
“There is absolutely no room in the game, nor elsewhere, for racism. I hope this prosecution goes some way in educating and deterring people from posting hate on social media.”
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