She left her Indian Ocean island home at the urging of Chelsea’s now-manager – now they’re working together again in pursuit of a Stamford Bridge legacy

It is rare to see Melvine Malard without a grin and she has a mountain of reasons to keep it that way. A wedding in June, a big-money move to Chelsea, a Ballon d’Or nomination and a first taste of a fiery London derby against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The French forward is loving life and the personality behind the smile that instantly connects her to teammates is infectious.

“Goals,” says Malard, with a laugh, when asked what keeps her happy. “Seriously though, it’s seeing the kids, the families, my family, in the stands. It is crazy. I love my life, I love my job, I’m happy with my wife and everything is good. I smile because of those things, because I’m happy.”

Thomas Tuchel wishes his team could play more like the world champions, but he may have to, as he himself put it, ‘embrace the chaos’ instead

England are about to face the hardest challenge in international football, maybe at any level of the game. They are going to try to score against Spain.

Spain conceded one goal in eight games on the way to winning the World Cup while allowing their opponents 2.37 expected goals, a mere 0.30 per 90 minutes played.

We analyse what City must do to appeal, why even that might not be the end of the legal wrangling, and the penalties that could await if the verdict is upheld

Manchester City have been found guilty of the vast majority of the 134 disciplinary charges brought against them by the Premier League.

Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won World Cup and European Championship but says there are no limits for his career

Like the kid he is, Lamine Yamal just wanted to keep playing. This wasn’t Plaça Joan XXIII, wasn’t El Parque de Rocafonda either; it wasn’t the Mataró neighbourhood where it all began, but it might have been. “We’re in a World Cup final and I wanted to carry on,” he says, and there’s the smile again, the braces. Really? “Yes”. No nerves? “No. I never thought: ‘Just blow the whistle’. I was enjoying it.” No fear, just fun: 19 July, New Jersey and he knew: this 19-year-old who had happily been asleep on the bus to the biggest match of his life.

And now he sits in a first-floor office in Las Rozas, surrounded by tactics boards and stats sheets. There’s a Spain keyring hanging from the door and a second star on his shirt. In the corridor, crates loaded for London. Son of Mounir and Sheila, named after the family friends who helped them, “touched by God’s wand” in the words of the coach whose office is next door, there’s something about Lamine Yamal. He turned 17 the day before the final of Euro 2024, a schoolboy sitting exams, and 19 the day before the semi-final of the World Cup. Asked what he wanted, he said a trip to New York, so there he was, about to be a champion again.

Exclusive: Dog Painting 17 is believed to be one of only six of works from Dog Series in private hands and first to be auctioned

David Hockney adored his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie and let them run riot – so much so that after one had an accident in the LA home of the actor Dennis Hopper, the painter is said to have quipped: “It’ll be dry in the morning, luv, and you can just pick it up.”

But Hockney did not just indulge his four-legged companions, he treated them as portrait subjects for a series of paintings, one of which is to be sold by Christie’s.

Britons Tom Pidcock and Oscar Onley are contenders but the Belgian is aiming for an unprecedented medal haul

In a world road championships marked by the absence of Tadej Pogacar, Tom Pidcock and Oscar Onley will lead British hopes in the men’s elite road race on Sunday. But for either to claim the rainbow jersey, they must beat a determined Remco Evenepoel, a man on a mission in Montreal.

Pogacar is recovering after a heavy crash in the Vuelta a España and Pidcock and Onley are among a large group of contenders, headed by Paul Seixas of France, the Belgian Evenepoel and Isaac del Toro of Mexico, all seeking to capitalise on the Slovenian’s absence. 

The star chef demystified the restaurant scene with his love of a welcoming pub. Now he explains why hospitality is in crisis – and how to make a sublime venison chilli

Tom Kerridge is the king of meat: first as a chef, transforming pub classics like pork belly into Michelin-starred fare at The Hand and Flowers in Marlow 20 years ago, and later opening The Butcher’s Tap and Grill in the same village; then as a cookery writer: his Outdoor Cooking – The Ultimate Modern Barbecue Bible of 2021 is well named, being both as comprehensive and as worshipful as a holy book; and recently as a “meat-fluencer”, making gorgeous skills videos on Instagram and YouTube.

That was just destiny, he says (more or less). “When you’re cooking in a classic brigade system, the sections are like a larder: you’ve got starters, you’ve got garnish, you’ve got meat and fish, you’ve got pastry. The meat is the lead section, where the most experienced chef is, because that’s where you land when you’ve learned to treat vegetables with love and respect. If you fuck up cabbage, it doesn’t cost a lot.” It’s true, it doesn’t, but if you saw the care Kerridge puts into dicing an onion – peeling its layers apart like he’s making a mosaic, assiduous even about half an inch of waste – of an onion – you’d know that love and respect aren’t really about money.

Cabin crew worker was among thousands of staff laid off during pandemic in what MPs called a ‘national disgrace’

During a 30-year career as a member of British Airways’ cabin crew, Tess De Mello took pride in a job well done, saying she regularly went above and beyond to make passengers more comfortable. To her, the role was more than just employment – it was part of her identity.

“I took pride,” she said. “I really took pride in myself, I took pride in my role, I took pride in everything because it was everything I wanted to be.”

Klaver en Dassen zaten in de boom, M-E-E-R-D-E-R-H-E-I-D. Riemen vast luitjes want spartelkabinet Chaos I gaat gered worden door een onwaarschijnlijke zeer waarschijnlijke samenwerking tussen PRO en VOLT. Jesse Klaver en Laurens Dassen hebben elkaar ineens gevonden en laten elkaar niet meer los (houden elkaar dus wel echt vast). Vandaag gaan ze gezamenlijk in gesprek met de coalitie om met (duistere s)linkse dealtjes de vele losse eindjes van Jetten aan elkaar te krijgen en bieden daarbij direct een mogelijke meerderheid in Eerste en Tweede Kamer. Alleen nog ff wachten tot de VVD onder de druk bezwijkt en het is OVER PAN-EUROPEES LINKS wat de klok slaat. Jesse en Laurens. Het is als havermelk en cappuccino. Als een bakfiets en een randstadmoeder met een pluizige knot en een burn-out. Als een vakantie naar Bali en 'maar ik betaal wel de CO2-compensatie'. Als plantaardige boter en geil. Een beter liefdesverhaal dan Twilight. Titanic. Brideshead Revisited. Brokeback Mountain. Volt. PRO. God, help ons.

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