Surely as in any 'trial' the statement/plea by the accused is taken at the end of the process. So the FA must have all the evidence they need. They must know which offences they are going to charge him for, whether they are ones he has pleaded guilty to or not. Therefore, if they have concluded...
They'll wait till the summer so he serves the lengthy ban (to show how serious the FA consider it) during the summer so he misses barely any football. It's a sham and a joke. They clearly have enough to ban him already, and I highly doubt they'll ban him during the run in, so the summer looks...