If anyone else on the field put in a challenge like this there would certainly have been a card.
Unfortunately for Demba Ba and his Shanghai Shenhua side, the offender here was the man with the book in his pocket, as it was the referee who managed to clean the former Chelsea and Newcastle striker out of it with this reducer during this weekend’s Chinese Super League derby against Shanghai SIPG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrR5bmyXWQ4
