Chelsea boss Emma Hayes delivered a poetic response to Arsenal head coach Jonas Eidevall after the pair clashed at last month's Women's League Cup final.
Hayes appeared to push Eidevall at the end of Arsenal's win over Chelsea at Molineux as the two went in for their post-match handshake.
Hayes then later called out the Swede for what she claimed to be "male aggression" following a touchline fracas with Blues midfielder Erin Cuthbert late in the Gunners' 1-0 extra-time victory.
Prior to Hayes' press conference on Friday, Eidevall labelled her post-match comments as "irresponsible", insisted he would not change the way he behaved and revealed he had not spoken with her.
When questioned about the incident in her press conference later that afternoon, Hayes responded by revealing a conversation she had had with her young son about the clash followed by an excerpt from a poem.
The 47-year-old said: "My son said to me after the game, 'Mummy, when you push someone in school you're asked to go and take time out'.
"I said to him, 'You know what darling, you can't meet aggression with aggression, all you can do is tell the teacher, all you can do is go and explain why you think something's unfair. That's all you can do.'
"You cannot meet aggression with aggression. I thought it was a really good conversation to have with my son after the final."
Asked whether she stood by everything she said after the game, Hayes read four lines from Robert Frost's Choose Something Like a Star poem: "So when at times the mob is swayed, to carry praise and blame too far, we may choose somewhere like a star, to stay our minds on and be staid."
Questioned what she meant by the poem, she replied: "I've had a fantastic break, I've already explained an
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