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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
Simple: that when the front of a player's frame falls on the ball away from anybody else, you call it dead and in his possession at that point. It'll give you a clearer ruling and require less distortion of the game than what you'd get in almost all cases of requiring something more. Once in a great while the ball will squirt far out and result in uncontested possession somewhere else, but usually you'll just wind up playing another game with rules like that of oncelost77, or anything else that isn't strictly football.
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Even in your silly little interpretation of possession, the responsibility of determining possession falls on the official. (an unbiased view)
We'd still have judgement on the official's part and now have another definition of possession to boot.
Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
