A football fan who racially abused England's Marcus Rashford, Jadon 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's match at Wembley.
The judge, Denis Brennan, said he had considered a suspended sentence but decided to impose a custodial one to deter others. "When approached by a Facebook friend asking him to remove the grossly offensive content, Best replied: 'It's my profile, I can do what I want.'," said prosecutor Elaine Cousins.
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