Stand up to Russia

EVEN before the suspected poisoning of a double agent and his daughter in Salisbury, we shouldn’t have been supporting the World Cup in Russia.

In the Seventies, when we had a problem with hooligans, we were banned from European club competitions and threatened with exclusion from international competitions. Today, Russia doesn’t only have hooliganism, its football fans are racist and homophobic.

What about Crimea, Ukraine, the shooting down of a passenger plane and the support of the indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Syria?

Sporting boycotts worked in South Africa. A It is now time to do the same with w Russia. PHIL SOSKIN, Rickmansworth, Herts. STOPPING our footballers going to the World Cup would penalise us more m than the Russians. PAUL BRAZIER, Kingswood, Glos.