{"id":1329,"date":"2026-04-03T20:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:42:43","slug":"shes-really-sorry-arsenal-manager-renee-slegers-opens-up-about-her-interview-with-katie-mccabe-after-controversial-incident-where-she-pulled-chelseas-alyssa-thompsons-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;She&#8217;s really sorry&#8217;: Arsenal manager Ren\u00e9e Slegers opens up about her interview with Katie McCabe after controversial incident where she pulled Chelsea&#8217;s Alyssa Thompson&#8217;s hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Slegers has spoken out about the controversial incident involving McCabe and Thompson during a midweek European match. The incident, in which the Irish defender pulled the young American winger&#8217;s hair, sparked outrage from Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor, who caused a stir by pulling out her mobile phone in a post-match interview to show what she considered to be an unsigned red card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>During a press conference on Friday, Slegers confirmed that he had held private discussions with his defender to clarify the situation. \u201cYes, I saw that, I spoke to Katie today too, she&#8217;s really sorry about what happened and it&#8217;s unfortunate that it happened,\u201d the coach explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slegers has spoken out about the controversial incident involving McCabe and Thompson during a midweek European match. The incident, in which the Irish defender pulled the young American winger&#8217;s hair, sparked outrage from Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor, who caused a stir by pulling out her mobile phone in a post-match interview to show what she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}