Chelsea have been left powerless after a billboard poking fun at Fernando Torres outside Stamford Bridge returned this week - despite the Blues winning a legal battle to get it removed.

The banner suggesting misfiring striker Torres should give up football to work in a burger van instead was erected last month and left Chelsea fuming, especially as it was embarrassingly placed just yards from the entrance to Stamford Bridge.

The Blues took legal action over its placement, insisting it damaged Torres’ image rights, and the local council agreed and pulled it down.

But bookmakers Paddy Power, who paid for the advert as part of their ‘second jobs for subs’ campaign, have taken vengeance by finding a clever way around keeping their banner live.

Directly underneath the old billboard placement, the company have placed the same advert but on a van parked across the road from the stadium.

And it seems the mischievous plan has worked - Chelsea are powerless to remove the van.