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Old Mon Feb 22, 2016, 05:10pm
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Interestingly, this could be considered a case where the whistle makes the ball dead as there is a degree of judgement in determining that the ball is lodged. I've seen balls thought to be lodged slowly become "unlodged" following the whistle prior to any attempts to manually dislodge it. To my memory, there isn't any defined period for how long the ball has to remain in the lodged position, so the situation requires the judgement of an official to declare it lodged. If you whistled for the foul before you or anyone else could whistle for the lodged ball, I think we know which you judged to come first.

From that point, the proper enforcement has already been discussed.
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