Arsenal have encouraged their supporters to follow advice from the Foreign Office after the club was drawn to play CSKA Moscow in the Europa League quarter-finals – a pairing described as a “hot potato” by an Arsenal fans’ group. The tie comes at a time of tension between the government and the Kremlin over the poisoning of the Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a nerve agent in Salisbury this month. Arsenal will host the first leg on 5 April before travelling to Moscow on 12 April. There have been plenty of calls for England to boycott the World Cup in Russia this summer and similar opinions on Arsenal’s visit can be expected.Arsenal beat AC Milan 5-1 on aggregate...
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