Football pieces

• Mike Maqusee in the Guardian explains how to enjoy football more by being unaffiliated.
  
  
• Reading the Maps discusses why we should support the New Zealand team.
  
  
• Liam is only interested in the singing.
  
  
• Charlie Brooker vents against patriotism.
  
  
• The Morning Star has a piece on how football helped to bring down apartheid.
  
  
• Richard Osley stares in horror at John Barnes.