When you see what John Yems has said, you wish somebody had made him an unconscious racist and then passed it off as 'banter'...
of WAGMI United, the new crypto-bro owners of League Two strugglers Crawley Town, but their early decision to relieve manager John Yems of his duties was certainly not amongst them. It has since been established that Yems was responsible for a level of racism in the way he dealt with his first-team squad that has set a new bar for recent times, with offensive language very much a part of his modus operandum.
Called one player a “curry muncher” and asked if the player was unhappy that they did not server “curry pizza” while the case was “extremely serious” and “involved racist bullying over a significant period of time” and that Yems’ “lack of remorse or insight” and the “repetitive nature of the misconduct” were aggravating factors, but somehow managed to conclude that “his attempts at jocularity had been thoughtless and misguided but not malevolent” even though – and there’s a wholly predictable word coming here – “Mr Yems’ ‘banter’ undoubtedly came across to the victims and others as offensive, racist and...
Yems’ defence was weak, but it was still somehow strong enough to persuade the Football Association. He ‘ At the risk of asking an entirely rhetorical question, did the FA’s Respect campaign, which was launched during the 2008/09 season, count for nothing? offensive, racist and Islamophobic’ language, they ‘accepted that Mr Yems is not a conscious racist’, as though Yems was somehow not responsible for the words to have come out of his own mouth.
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