Let's be more positive

The World Cup can teach us Malaysians (and our politicians) why it's better to avoid negative and destructive playing styles. 

WHEN I realised an article was due right in the middle of the World Cup, I thought I knew what I was going to write: A story of how a team who is outclassed in every way gets lucky and scores a winning goal. In football parlance, it would be a smash-and-grab, and it was to be a piece on how commentators focus on the results and not necessarily how it was achieved...