A Germany star was sent off for pulling an opponent's hair during their country's Euro 2025 quarter-final against France on Saturday night.
Defender Kathrin Hendrich was shown a straight red card for the offence, for which she also gave away a penalty in the 13th minute of the match at St. Jakob Park in Basel, Switzerland.
After Hendrich, 33, was dismissed, the resulting spot-kick was converted by Grace Geyoro to give France the lead.
However, Germany struck back just over ten minutes later when Sjoeke Nusken popped up with a leveller against the run of play.
The French then had two goals disallowed for offside either side of the half-time interval as Germany valiantly clung on despite being a player down.
The winner of the match will face world champions Spain, with Sarina Wiegman's Lionesses potentially waiting in the final - should they beat Italy - following their penalty shootout heroics against Sweden on Thursday.
The incident that saw Hendrich sent off mirrors a similar occurrence of what happened in the Club World Cup final last Sunday - when PSG's Joao Neves was sent off for pulling the hair of Chelsea left-back Marc Cucurella.
That saw referee Alireza Faghani send Neves off after he was deemed to have committed violent conduct.
Reacting to the incident on social media, fans were quick to bemoan Neves' actions.
One user wrote: 'Absolute headloss from Joao Neves. Completely unnecessary red card.'
A second chimed in: 'Joao Neves was shown a straight red for his behaviour! Shameful act on the football pitch!'
Another user stated: 'Joao Neves red card, Cucurella should never cut his hair'.
It marked a fractured and ugly end to a tournament that has not been short on controversy during its newly-expanded format.
Players and managers have consistently complained about having to play in soaring summer temperatures of well over 30C in the United States.
Meanwhile, FIFA has had to deal with the ignominy of seeing some stadiums half-empty during games due to their deployment of dynamic pricing.
That policy - along with the decision to play next year's World Cup in the North American summer - present big issues for football's governing body to solve ahead of the World Cup getting under way in 12 months' time.
collinsAgummadu
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1 thing with football is that you can't sweep out any team until the final whistle, Germany were one down with a red card since the HT yet they controlled the ball excellent reaching on the penalty Shout-out and the victory were there's, Football is unbelievable
nekckmsty
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Long hair has become traps.
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is that your mother??????
GerwiiSermon
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pull my hair, I break both your arms
coming from a bald boy
Blade58
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so what happen to the FIFA Confederation Cup?
Filery
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They did even tell us who won the match . this ppl self
Germany won on penalties 6-5
Sundeilmpr
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They did even tell us who won the match . this ppl self
Cukaknort
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Please those players with longer hairs should cut it short and down to prevent those incidents
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Pori
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Please those players with longer hairs should cut it short and down to prevent those incidents
Really, y would they cut it? Having long hairs has nothing to do with football
bicadklops
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Please those players with longer hairs should cut it short and down to prevent those incidents
will u b d 1 to tell a player how to look???
fopabdestz
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why cuz even her she has long hair but did anyone pull her
What am trying to say is that Fifa should prevent this players by allowing them to even plait their hair or make it shorter during matches
mawaceouy
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Please those players with longer hairs should cut it short and down to prevent those incidents
why cuz even her she has long hair but did anyone pull her
fopabdestz
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Please those players with longer hairs should cut it short and down to prevent those incidents
Andy220
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The fact that She denied pulling her opponent hair was quite hilarious when there's VAR, kinda lucky that they still won
suaaekpu
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Kathrin claimed that she didn't pull the French lady's hair. From what we saw, she did and should have been shown another RED CARD for denying the fact.
fepaeiprsu
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give her black card with 10 match ban
suaaekpu
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Women football is being modelled on long hair, if you don't have natural long hair, wear an extension. Pulling the opponent's hair is not football. RED CARD was rightly shown. Well Done to Germany women.
fupceiluyz
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Long hair has become traps.
AFerDGdp0935
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We blessed Neves for this incident. Homegal did the copy and paste.
Juhabsuy
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They know they ll get sent off why do it
Widbiltz
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foolish Kathrin
Zozbdelopt
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I like way she reacted with her red card... Is obvious red card and what is there to act that she was surprised!
Makaveli9900
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Women cucurela
Neadenpstu
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pull my hair, I break both your arms
p_Jayyy
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I bet she's happy cause Germany made it through somehow