Ukraine invasion: England will not play Russia in any international football fixture ‘for the foreseeable future’, FA announces

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1. Turn them to friendly matches with Ukraine. All profits will go to rebuild Ukraine.

2. That should include clubs in Europe for added effect. The Champion’s League and Europa League are huge tournaments and Russian clubs should be banned from those, with an extra spot going to a Ukrainian team instead.

3. How about not playing teams owned by russian billionaires?

4. We will end up with “a team from russia but not Russia” like the olympics.

5. Means nothing. Not a single one of them boycotted the Russia World Cup after it was confirmed the state murdered our citizens in Salisbury.

6. There are at least two teams owned by Russians playing in England. They should be suspended from all competitions.

7. How about suspending all Russian players from playing full stop.

8. No-one should be playing Russia for the foreseeable future, FIFA. Because you should have already completely banned them, you spineless fucks.

9. Ah football. Only the threat of world war three can stop the match.

10. Alright. Now ban every russian owned team from playing professional football.

11. Waiting with baited breath for all those ministers to come rushing out to tell the FA to stay out of politics.

12. I’ve just read about a rape by Russian soldiers on another subreddit, and then threw money at her.

    It’s really fucked up, they’ve not even got passed there 2014 Revolution, Putin is just being a dick because he didn’t get his own way.

13. Country gets invaded and innocents die. We’re not playing with you anymore. It’s a fucking joke.

14. [Scottish FA have now taken a similar stance](https://twitter.com/ScottishFA/status/1498249852333006849).

15. The FA needs to update their statement to include this “RFU” bullshit. Although I wouldn’t mind seeing England’s Football team play a half of football, then a half of rugby against the real RFU team…