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CARLISLE: YEMS CASE HIGHLIGHTS DEEP FLAW

By Tom Blackett

SITTING IT OUT: John Yems has been banned from football for 18 months

FORMER footballer Clarke Carlisle believes the racist abuse case of former Crawley boss John Yems is another reason why the game needs independent regulation.
An independent panel found Yems guilty of racist abuse towards his players and banned him from football for 18 months. But it said it accepted Yems was “not a conscious racist”. In its report published on Tuesday, the panel found Yems used a racial slur to describe some of the club’s black players, deliberately mispronou...

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