The Football Association have confirmed that they will appeal the decision to ban disgraced former Crawley Town manager John Yems for 18 months after he was found to have made a series of racist slurs.
Yems, 63, has been suspended from all footballing activity until June 2024 for making 11 separate discriminatory comments towards players while in charge of the League Two club.
But an independent panel ruled that Yems was "not a conscious racist" and referred to his insults - which included referring to black players as "Zulu warriors", an Asian player as “a curry muncher” and referring to "suicide vests" - as "banter" and an attempt at "jocularity."
