RAHEEM STERLING wants to spend his summer talking to the football authorities in an attempt to further combat the rise in racism in British football.

Sterling’s brutally honest Instagram post last December, in which he blamed the media’s portrayal of black players for the spike in racist abuse in the sport, opened up a can of worms the Football Association and Premier League are still trying to address.

The Manchester City winger questioned the effectiveness of wearing T-shirts prior to matches and social media boycotts, which even those backing them failed to adhere to, and once again raised the issue of “harder punishments,” something his England teammate Danny Rose called for after the pair were racially abused while representing England in Montenegro.