He said that Entwistle ticked all the boxes at the interview stage in highlighting internal issues at the BBC, such as a "silo mentality" and internecine fighting between departments, only to see him fall foul of the very same problems when the Savile and Lord McAlpine issues hit the corporation.
The Supreme Court, in particular, has made several decisions in recent years that have narrowed trustbusters' room for manoeuvre.Even if the courts prove unexpectedly pliant, trustbusters may still fall foul of one of the problems that dogged the prosecution of Microsoft: the difficulty of finding a workable remedy.
As Michael Breen, the author of a recent book on South Korea, caustically observes: "Falling foul of the law isn't a problem, as long as one doesn't fall foul of the people who enforce it".Nobody can say where cordiality ends and graft begins.
Cathy Borowy, deputy head of mental health at the Department of Health, says the grand aim - if it does not fall foul of IT problems elsewhere in the NHS - is for one, up-to-date, record for each patient, accessible wherever the individual is being treated.
Dogs could be banned from play areas in Penarth and Caerphilly, because of the problem of dog fouling.
The presence of the black, foul-smelling water suggests that the worst of the problem is yet to come.
Philadelphia had some success intentionally fouling center DeAndre Jordan on Friday, but the bevy of missed free throws were only part of the problem.
Modify them to sell, say, insurance to Italians, and you fall foul of new problems elsewhere.
The one-cap Lions star has always boasted prodigious talent, but has often fallen foul of off-field problems.
One of the problems has been that India might scream foul if it were excluded.
