Gaffer: My folks are in
countries met in a group game at the start of Euro 2016 in France.
During the violence 35 England fans were injured and two were left fighting for their lives. And now the escalating diplomatic row over the nerve-agent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury has triggered calls for a boycott of the World Cup.
But Southgate insists he’s happy for his family to travel to Russia even though no British MPs or members of the Royal family – including FA president Prince William – will be attending.
Southgate said: “I’d be happy for my family to go there and support the team. They’re planning to do that, but we’re like everyone else – we have to see what the advice is and if it changes.”
Fans who plan to travel to the three group games in Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod and Kaliningrad have been told they could be subject to an “extreme level of violence”, according to deputy chief constable Mark Roberts who co-ordinated the British police operation at Euro 2016 and who will be in charge again.