In a stadium perched beneath the Hollywood Hills, Iran twice fell behind, twice rose again, and walked off the pitch with a precious point -

In a stadium perched beneath the Hollywood Hills, Iran twice fell behind, twice rose again, and walked off the pitch with a precious point - and a glimpse of what football can mean when everything else falls apart.The 2-2 draw with New Zealand in Los Angeles was never just a football match. Played in a city where the Iranian diaspora numbers in the hundreds of thousands - “Tehrangeles” - this was a political lightning rod as much as a Group G opener. Outside the stadium, protesters clashed. Inside, the national anthem was drowned by boos. And yet, for 101 minutes,...