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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
But if I were officiating, I'd never want to have to draw the line on how much control a player whose body is on top of and in contact with the ball has. When play continues in that situation, it hardly ever leads to a clear-cut resolution of who first controlled it. It usually winds up between bodies, often with a struggle continuing for some time.
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Well ... to be honest, if you were officiating, you would have had some modicum of training. This would likely disabuse you of this sillyness.
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You could whistle on the assumption that someone must have possession of it, but then how is your presumption any better than mine as laid out above?
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Ditto.
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Where does it say that in the rules? It just says "held or controlled"; it doesn't say how.
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I was trying to help you, not get into a thesaurus discussion. You don't want the help, that's fine by me - just don't try to put on the stripes.