Torres grateful for fans’ backing

FERNANDO TORRES has thanked Chelsea’s fans for refusing to turn on him after the £50 million man’s Stamford Bridge career hit a new low.

Saturday saw Torres experience the ultimate highs and lows for the second successive weekend after he got himself sent off for an ugly lunge on Swansea’s Mark Gower. The striker had just scored his third Chelsea goal and played a part in Ramires’ second but he made headlines once again for all the wrong reasons, much as he had done by missing an open goal after netting in the defeat at Manchester United six days earlier.

Those are merely the latest calamities to befall the club’s record signing since his January move from Liverpool, with the Spaniard taking an incredible 13 games to break his duck.