A football fan who racially abused West Bromwich Albion midfielder Romaine Sawyers on social media has lost an appeal against his conviction.
Simon Silwood was jailed for eight weeks in September after a court ruled a Facebook message was intentionally racist and not the result of autocorrect as he had claimed.
Silwood, 50, of Kingswinford, West Midlands was told he had "not told the truth" about the "despicable" abuse.
His sentence was upheld.
A judge at the Wolverhampton Crown Court hearing on Friday told Silwood his version of events were "inconceivable" and the decision to bring an appeal "unwise".