
FORMER CRAWLEY MANAGER JOHN YEMS HAS BEEN BANNED FROM FOOTBALL.
Former Crawley manager John Yems has been banned from football for 18 months for multiple breaches of the FA's rule relating to discriminatory comments; Yems admitted one charge and an independent panel found 11 others to be proven - yet concluded he is not a "conscious racist"
Tony Burnett, the chief executive of Kick It Out, says it is "utterly bizarre" that an FA-appointed independent panel accepted that John Yems was not a "conscious racist" despite revealing a string of offensive racial remarks made by the former Crawley Town manager.
The FA pushed for a two-year suspension, but the panel agreed with Yems' solicitors that he was not a racist and did not "intend to make racist remarks".
The 63 year old was charged after he made 16 alleged comments which "included a reference t...