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The van driver, Christopher Hicks from St Neots in Cambridgeshire, was convicted of causing death by careless driving, but a drug test, which was positive, was only carried out the day after the crash.

"Someone in the Revenue now with the whole glare of the UK's media on them is going to make a decision as to whether Rayner was careless," he said.

In the Premier League rulebook, a "careless challenge" is deemed one with a "lack of attention or consideration when making a challenge or acts without precaution".

Harte was given a 17-month suspended sentence in February this year after he pleaded guilty to careless driving causing death.

He added, "but fires are mostly caused by dimwitted and careless people, and there is no way of separating them from their careful neighbours, so the ban is necessary".