British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered his support to a potential joint bid by both the UK and the Republic of Ireland to host the 2030 World Cup. “Let’s bring football home in 2030. I would love for the home of football to host the 2030 World Cup, and it would be a wonderful thing for the whole country to savour,” Johnson said on Tuesday. “We want to do much more to encourage sport post-pandemic and see a bonanza of football in the years ahead,” he wrote on Twitter. Earlier, he told the Sun newspaper he was “very, very keen” for the bid to succeed and thought it will be “the right place” and “the right time.” The government’s support has been welcomed by the football associations of all four nations of the United Kingdom—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—as well as the Republic of Ireland. In a joint …