Clashes broke out between Russia and England fans at the European Championship in France GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO/EPABritish police are “terribly naive” about the level of risk facing football fans who travel to Russia for the World Cup, MPs warned yesterday. Ten thousand England supporters are expected to visit Russia for World Cup matches, two years after two were left in comas and dozens more were seriously injured by Russian hooligans at the European Championship in France. England play Tunisia in Volgograd on June 18 in their first World Cup game. The British official co-ordinating the safety of World Cup fans was among the diplomats expelled by Russia after the Salisbury nerve-agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts, national lead for football policing, told the Commons’ foreign affairs committee yesterday that Russian officers had measures…

Source: The Times May 08, 2018 22:52 UTC