Cech saves Blues’ blushes as Fulham frustrate toothless Torres

THE safety net when you make an expensive purchase is that if you don’t like it you can always take it back.

It would hardly be surprising if Roman Abramovich woke up this morning and started looking desperately for a receipt to the value of £50m (€58m) as he and Carlo Ancelotti wonder why the Fernando Torres they bought from Liverpool is not exactly as was advertised in the brochure.

This would have been a woeful display by a visiting player from the days when Fulham were languishing in the old Fourth Division, let alone the costliest man in British football history, and the fact that Carlo Ancelotti defended Torres to the hilt after the game only added to the sense of farce.