Philip Barker: When FIFA told the Soviets nyet, ruling them

Last week’s decision to expel Russia from the 2022 FIFA World Cup is
not entirely without precedent. The same thing happened almost half a
century ago, albeit for different reasons when Russia was at the
centre of the Soviet Union.

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