Win two games, a World Cup semifinal and final. Since England’s last World Cup championship, in 1966, victories in big moments have proved so elusive that they represented something of a national block.

The FIFA World Cup 2026 continues to break records on English-language U.S. TV. Tuesday’s match between Spain and France averaged 11.462 million viewers this Tuesday on Fox, making it the most-watched FIFA Men’s World Cup semifinals telecast in U.

Harry Kane and England were minutes away from advancing to the World Cup final before Argentina pulled off another comeback.

A surprising trend has developed over the course of this World Cup, with many fans making the peculiar decision to snub Fox’s English coverage of the tournament in favor of the more gripping Spanish-language commentary.

For English referees Michael Oliver and Anthony Taylor, their participation at the World Cup is over.

Some World Cup fans have accused FIFA of favoring Argentina, the defending World Cup champions, and its star player, billionaire Lionel Messi.

Ashleigh Hallam teaches English as a second language at her local library in Indiana. Soccer is now teaching her Spanish as a second language. For her, this World Cup couldn’t make more sense. Hallam is among a sizable number of English-speaking people in the U.

England and Argentina met in Wednesday's World Cup final with an extensive history that extends beyond the pitch. The two nations engaged in the Falklands War in 1982 as part of a centuries-old dispute over islands off the southern Argentina coast.