
Spirit of the Game, or Just a Rulebook Farce?
By Neeraj Mishra It is widely acknowledged that the British love nothing better than writing everything down: gazettes, laws, rules, sub-rules, appendices, schedules, and administrative orders. For anything left vague, they devised a curious concept called the “spirit or essence of the written word”. Having done that, they promptly cloaked themselves in the robe of…