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Old Fri Sep 30, 2011, 11:59am
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by asdf View Post
So your idea of possession is "it stays close to the body of the player"???
No, the idea is to prevent it from being live and close to his body. I'm describing the situation that almost inevitably occurs if you allow the ball to remain live after a player falls prone on it. The ball hardly ever moves far from that spot, so you have that player's body and a bunch of others piled up around it, and will wind up taking a guess as to who has possession, or following some other non-football procedure to decide it.
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