Its activities included producing instructional materials for coaches, players, and referees, advising foreign football organizations, approving rules and regulations of English leagues, and serving as a court for those charged with having broken such rules.
Indeed, in the past, it was proudly and loudly breaking such rules.
Feyerabend famously argued that every proposed methodological rule has been fruitfully violated at some point in the course of scientific advance, and that only by breaking such rules could scientists have made the progressive steps for which they are praised (1975).
And Mr Olmert's predecessor, Ariel Sharon, was interrogated both about breaking such financing rules and about much more serious allegations of bribery and breach of trust.
There are other rules he breaks, such as introducing a new character in the penultimate chapter and allowing himself a page-long sentence.
In more complex paradigms an abstract rule is broken, such as inter-stimulus relationships (Tervaniemi et al., 1994; Paavilainen et al., 2001; Vuust et al., 2005) or phoneme regularity (Näätänen et al., 1997).
Yet his businesses seem to break all the rules: rules such as focusing on markets and activities you know something about, or having a clear corporate governance and ownership structure, or paying attention to succession planning – all the stuff conventional business does.
The fines – for misdemeanours that continued until October 2013 – were not for breaking specific rules, because no such rules exist, but only for a more general failure to maintain standards.
When trying to understand why such rules are broken within medical settings it has been suggested that it relates to the way "work is organised", that staff usually do not know patients and that medical aspects of work are prioritised over psychological ones [ 47].
But the rules don't work, the technology is prone to breaking – causing explosions blamed on "terrorists", a tag also applied to those who bend or break the rules, such the freelance plumber played by Robert de Niro.
