Shanghai SIPG officials clash with Tianjin Quanjian counterparts over a tower incident during the goalless draw between the two Chinese Super League powerhouses on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The brawl ignited in the first half when a member of the Tianjin coaching staff positioned a towel on the sidelines for South Korean midfielder Kwon Kyung-won to use to dry the ball before a throw-in.<\/p>\n
However, a ball boy from the home team SIPG removed it, which lead to a heated exchange between the two teams and the referee had to send a Quanjian official to the stands.<\/p>\n
At the end of the match, a number of Tianjin players and officials took a group photo to show their discontent over the incident.<\/p>\n
After the disappointing draw, the Andr\u00e9 Villas-Boas<\/a> side slowed down their pace in the chase of table topper Guangzhou Evergrande with three points behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shanghai SIPG officials clash with Tianjin Quanjian counterparts over a tower incident during the goalless draw between the two Chinese Super League powerhouses on Sunday. The brawl ignited in the first half when a member of the Tianjin coaching staff positioned a towel on the sidelines for South Korean midfielder Kwon Kyung-won to use to dry the ball before a throw-in. However, a ball boy from the home team SIPG removed it, which lead to a heated exchange between the two teams and the referee had to send a Quanjian official to the stands. At the end of the match, a number of Tianjin players and officials took a group … Continue reading “Shanghai SIPG clashed with Tianjin Quanjian over a towel incident”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[83,237,99],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-shanghai-sipg","tag-tianjin-quanjian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}