Halloween sees Chelsea hosting Liverpool at Stamford Bridge. If both teams’ current form holds, that fixture might set football back 20 years.

Depending on who you believe, Real Madrid are deep enough in debt that servicing the debt has to affect their operating expenses budget. Daily Mail says they are about €645M in the red at the end of the 2014 financial year, while Guardian and others have stated it’s €590M.

You’re assuming Ramos’s interest in coming to Old Trafford wasn’t real, and that Mendes engineered a ploy to force Perez into offering a more lucrative contract. That’s understandable, but a lot of journalists in Spain were saying that Ramos indeed did want to come to Manchester United, but when Real Madrid belayed…

I understand Williams is the toast of the town in New York these days.

It must be this week, because Screamer has yet another article up criticising Manchester United. I can hardly wait for next week’s article doing the same thing.

“Chevrolet aren’t actually a big company on the UK.” That’s on GM for making the purchase, not on United for taking their money. Beats some of the other companies.

Since it was not included, here’s Manchester United’s release on the matter. One important note: they say they have submitted their documentation to the FA, which has agreed all was in order. Your move Real Madrid:

Name one transfer that you’d look at and say, “Mmm, good bit of business there”?

United remind me of the Dallas Mavericks of a couple of years ago.

The Andy Kaufman of pseudo-journalism?

It’s really easy for her: quit her job.

Never attribute to conspiracy what can be more easily explained by incompetence.

Marina Granovskaia is the real power at Chelsea, Mourhino or no Mourhino. She’s one of Chelsea’s four plc directors, and is probably the most trusted executive at the club in the eyes of Roman Abromovich.

If anything, if Man United are on the border of failing to qualify for the Champions League come January, they could be convinced to pay a small fortune for Stones.

1. Multimode fibre is relatively short-range, and single-mode fibre is really, really sensitive to termination issues.

Armed civilians against a professional army? dude that’s not even a contest.

Kingsman is good in that I was entertained for a couple of hours and had a few laughs in the process. Is it Godfather Part II? No. But does it suck like the new Fantastic Four? Not even close.

I bet Chargers fans would rather have a Super Bowl win.

DeGea is not playing tomorrow, so he is as good as gone to the Royal Whites. Ramos was never going to come, his was yet another elaborate ploy to use Manchester United as a convenient foil in his contract negotiations.

It will probably mean another 4th place finish.