Edouard Mendy

The way that weekend was shaping up the only surprise, really, was that Liverpool didn’t win the bloody Eurovision Song Contest, because they were win(...)

Imagine, for a moment, you’re the goalframe at the east end of Wembley. Last summer, you watched as Marcus Rashford, at the climax of that sulphurous (...)

“Things have happened that no one could possibly imagine,” Carlo Ancelotti said, but you might have heard that one before. You might have seen somethi(...)

Everton 1 Chelsea 0 It was all too much for the Everton legend Colin Harvey, who could not bear any more Chelsea pressure and made for the exit with (...)

Chelsea 1 West Ham 0 Craig Dawson had enjoyed virtually the perfect afternoon. West Ham’s one fit centre-back had been a man mountain, everything thr(...)

Chelsea 2 Arsenal 4 By the end it was difficult to know which team’s future looks brighter. Chelsea had stumbled to their third successive defeat at (...)

It must be very strange to be Édouard Mendy, a goalkeeper who seems doomed never quite to be centre stage. And when the spotlight does fall on him, it(...)

“It is one of the biggest challenges to perform as the away team at the Bernabéu and it is even more difficult if you have to earn a certain result,” (...)

Chelsea 1 Real Madrid 3 Sometimes the old ones are the best. By the end, the notion that Chelsea would blow Real Madrid away felt utterly preposterou(...)

LOSC Lille 1 Chelsea 2 (1-4 agg) There is still no guarantee that Chelsea will be able to finish the season, the reality of their precarious situatio(...)