England could have no journalists at World Cup after Russian threats to UK | MUK Sports

U.K. foreign secretary Boris Johnson says Britain may not participate normally in the World Cup if Russia is proven to be behind the unexplained illness of a former spy. With 100 days to go until the FIFA World Cup, Ian Darke joins a group of ESPN writers and experts for a roundtable discussion about what to expect in Russia this summer. England are facing the risk of playing in this summer's World Cup without their media being present at the event after Russian Foreign Minister Maria Zakharova threatened to expel all UK media from the country. Zakharova was reacting to a warning from communications regulator Ofcom that it could strip broadcaster Russia Today of its UK operating license, if the UK government find Moscow was behind the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal.  "I can tell you right now that not a single British...
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