This story about an FA panel finding former Crawley manager John Yems to be “not consciously” racist reminds me of that old Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, PC Savage.
Yems was found to have calling a player of Asian heritage a “curry muncher”, described a Muslim player as a “terrorist” - the player was asked if he slept with a gun and carried a bomb in his bag - called black players “Zulu warriors” and pronounced Arnold Schwarzenegger by emphasising the last part so it sounded like the N word. When two black players were playing darts he "made gestures as if using a blowpipe". And when a black player came back from international duty he was told he should not train with the squad, with Yems commenting on his colour, He "then put his hand over his mouth saying he should not say that".
But heh ho, all’s well, because the panel found Yems didn’t realise he was being racist. Phew. That’s ok then. (BTW, I learned long ago that there are some sentences that need a sarcasm font. That last one is one of those.)
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