“For my part, thinking ahead to the World Cup this summer, it would be very difficult to imagine that UK representation at that event could go ahead in the normal way. We will certainly have to consider that”, United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told members of Parliament in the House of Commons on March 6 2018, during the debate about the unexplained illness of the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia.