The Football Association is taking the unprecedented step of considering its legal options after “fundamentally” disagreeing with the findings of an independent panel that ruled former Crawley manager John Yems was not “consciously racist.”
Yems, 63, had been accused of making 16 comments which were in breach of FA Rule E3.2 between 2019 and 2022. They were alleged to have referenced either ethnic origin, race, nationality, colour, gender or religion.
He previously admitted to one charge by the FA but denied the other 15. The independent regulatory commission then found 11 of the claims to be proven and four unproven during a hearing. That led to Yems being banned from all football activity until June 1 2024, with the FA saying they had requested a longer suspension.
