It would be a properly dickish move to pull out of a tournament once you've been charging 90,000 people £60 a pop to watch qualifying games for it on the basis of no new information (the notion that Russia is a corrupt dictatorship that gets up to some weapons-grade shady shit across the world is hardly new news).
Isn’t it possible to disagree without being offensive?
That aside, it seems you’re ok with English fans getting smashed up & locked up. Fair enough, if you’re one of those who’s been shelling out £60 a pop.
England pulling out of the WC now would just be virtue signalling posturing. The time to pull out of the Russia WC was as soon as it was announced when an obviously corrupt bid from a country with an appaling human rights record and a huge hooliganism problem won.
But we didn’t, we were cool with all that.
Also, probably better if you disagree with things I actually say, rather than constructing ‘AndrewT loves seeing England fans getting beaten up’ strawmen.
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