All sippo is saying is that media/people will being his skin colour into the fact that he was sackes and alude the fact he was just shit at his job.
Yes I know. I don't think they will. I guess a few people might use it as a hook to do another "Why aren't there more black managers?" but I'll lay odds no-one says Powell was sacked because he's black.
The same way the media branded Sterling critics racists when the simple fact was, he was just shit at the World Cup.
Did they? There was rightly considerable criticism of some of the coverage Sterling received in the media which was solely motivated by the fact that he's young black and successful and had fuck all to do with the way he was playing. I didn't see any examples of "the media branded Sterling critics racists". I might have missed them, but I didn't see it.
FWIW, I think people play the "playing the race card" card far more often than actual examples of the "race card being played" (apart from Sol Campbell, but he's just a tit)