"England urged to ignore World Cup 2018 boycott calls." That was a headline in a British newspaper today. Ha! The story is worth about as much as one titled, "Valdimir Putin in tight battle to regain the Presidency". England are not going to boycott the World Cup and Putin, well, his only tight battle might be with a Siberian tiger. Actually, that will be just as staged and managed as the election.
The English FA had many opportunities and reasons to not go to Russia. They are not going to pull out now. They could have also taken a stand about Qatar, the human rights abuses, the exploited labourers building the World Cup stadiums. But what did they do? They entered into an agreement with the Qatari FA to help promote football there.
England are going to be at the World Cup and so are all the other countries that made a lot of noise about the way Russia were awarded the World Cup, and the political situation in Russia, and not just the Ukraine issue. It is unfortunate that the US didn't qualify, just to see what Donald Trump would have done.
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