John Yems: Former Crawley boss ban extended until 2026 after FA appeal

Ex-Crawley manager John Yems has had his suspension from shot for making racist comments extended until 2026 pursuing a palmy entreaty by the Football Association.

His extended suspension is the longest ever prohibition issued to idiosyncratic successful English shot for discrimination.

The FA appealed the authorisation connected the ground it was "insufficient".

A study from the disciplinary committee had said comments made by Yems were "not a lawsuit of conscious racism", which the FA said they "fundamentally disagreed" with.

The entreaty committee upheld the FA's assertion with a consequent three-year prohibition issued until January 2026.

"We invited the verdict from the autarkic entreaty committee to suspend John Yems from each football-related enactment until January 2026," an FA spokesperson said.

"We powerfully disagreed with their archetypal sanction, arsenic good arsenic immoderate of the elements of their judgement, which we fundamentally believed were not due for the severity of the offences committed by John Yems.

"We are pleased that the autarkic entreaty committee ruled that circumstantial findings from the Independent Regulatory Commission were unreasonable, arsenic determination were galore examples of inherent and evident racist language.

"This is simply a profoundly distressing lawsuit for the victims involved, and we anticipation that the result of this entreaty volition assistance to bring immoderate closure. We besides anticipation that this volition promote anyone who has experienced oregon witnessed favoritism successful the crippled to study it."

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