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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
From a live view and numerous replays, I think that he deliberately grabbed his opponent's shoulder and pulled him backward. Contact alone would have sent the player with the ball in the opposite direction. He also would have had to go through his opponent to get at the ball; he was behind him. My thinking is that the official that made the call got it right.
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I was watching the replay trying to figure out how the player fell the way he did. Judging by how quickly the official came up with the X, and the angle he had between the players, it's almost as if he could see something we can't.
