Let's be a world champion in good corporate behaviour, small-nation style

IF THERE is one thing that sports fans have learnt over the weekend, it is that size doesn't matter; both the giant and the small triumphed on Sunday, in two global sporting spectacles that took place almost simultaneously.

Croatia, for one thing, proved that it was the little country that could (almost). The little East European nation, with its equally diminutive captain Luka Modric, showed that - despite its small population and domestic woes - it could beat opponents far richer and better organised than itself to win a coveted place in the World Cup final, where it fell to France.

And, across the continent (and the English Channel), gentle giant Kevin Anderson demonstrated that, unlike similar Goliaths before him, his towering six-foot-eight frame doesn't go down so easily.