- Arsenal advanced to the Women's Champions League semi-finals on Wednesday after eliminating Chelsea in a contentious quarter-final match.
- The game featured a controversial incident where Arsenal's Katie McCabe pulled Chelsea's Alyssa Thompson's hair in stoppage time, which went unpunished by the referee and VAR.
- Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor was booked twice and sent off for her furious protests regarding the officiating, later showing video evidence of the hair-pulling incident in her post-match interview.
- Bompastor criticised the officiating and VAR as disrespectful to women's football, citing this and several past incidents involving Chelsea and her former club Lyon in the Champions League, while McCabe protested her innocence on Instagram, insisting she “wouldn’t ever want to pull someone’s hair”.
- Despite a late goal from Sjoeke Nusken, Chelsea's numerous missed opportunities and the controversial decisions contributed to their elimination, marking a disappointing season for the club.
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Sonia Bompastor explodes at Katie McCabe’s hair-pull — then pulls out the receipts
