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Alan Smith

John Yems demands apology in remarkable interview after ban for racist slurs

Disgraced former Crawley Town manager John Yems has remarkably insisted that he should receive an apology after being banned for making a series of vile racist slurs.

The 63-year-old 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.

Earlier this week an independent panel ruled that he was “not a conscious racist" and instead described the words used - including 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."

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