BLACKBURN football star Dwight Yorke is attempting to overturn a £350 speeding fine.
Lawyers for the striker were arguing at the High Court in London that his conviction was procedurally flawed.
His first appeal to Manchester Crown Court was unsuccessful when Judge Gerrard Humphries said he did not believe Yorke's claim that he was not driving the vehicle at the time of the offence.
As well as the fine, Yorke was ordered to pay £1,000 court costs.
The Crown Court heard how the 31-year-old's Porsche was clocked doing 61mph in a 40mph zone in Manchester in May 2001 and local magistrates fined him £350 for the offence.
However, his lawyer, Nick Freeman, claimed there was no actual evidence that Yorke was driving the car.
But Judge Humphries said: "I am sure Dwight Yorke was driving. I have concluded that a defendant, if not guilty, would have come to court and gone into the witness box."
The footballer and his lawyers are making a second attempt to overturn the conviction.
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