RECORD BAN FOR YEMS AS FA WIN APPEAL

By Chris Dunlavy

LEAGUE TWO FORMER Crawley Town boss John Yems has been handed a record threeyear ban from football following a successful FA appeal. Yems, 63, was suspended for 17 months in January after a disciplinary commission found him guilty of 11 charges of racist abuse towards players during a threeyear stint in charge of the Red Devils. He admitted one. Explaining its judgement, the commission said that Yems’ comments were “not a case of conscious racism”. The FA appealed their decision, arguing that the sanction was insufficient for the gravity of t...

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