RUSSIA’S THREAT TO BAN MEDIA FROM WORLD CUP

ENGLAND face the possibility of playing in the World Cup with none of their own media present after the Russian government last night threatened to ban ‘every single British news outlet’, amid rising tension between the two countries. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova proposed a blanket ban on British journalists if the UK licence of Kremlin-backed

Russia Today is revoked. RT is under threat after the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. The FA declined to comment last night but for England to play in a country which had banned its media would be unprecedented.