US frustrates England again with 0-0 draw; Qatar eliminated

Three times now, the United States has met England on the World Cup stage and three times has left undefeated — a quiet but persistent rewriting of football's assumed hierarchies. On Friday at Al Bayt Stadium in Qatar, a goalless draw extended that record and left English fans jeering into the desert night. The result is not an ending but a threshold: the Americans must now defeat Iran on Tuesday or go home, while the wider tournament revealed that host nations, no matter how lavishly prepared, cannot buy their way past the game itself.