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My issue isn't with subjectivity, or about every foul being different. It's simply with using whether or not a player gets the ball as the key defining aspect of whether a challenge is a foul. It is not and should not ever be about that. It should be about the challenge - was it careless...

Not in law. There is nothing in the law about contact with the ball with regard to fouls, nor contact with the ball first nor how much contact is needed. But it is the explanation given when the ref doesn't give the foul (not just by pundits trying to explain it, but you will sometimes see refs...