Transfer Deadline Day on Sky Sports News & BBC Sport

January 30, 2012   ·   0 Comments

Transfer Deadline Day on Tuesday 31 January promises to be an unmissable event for many football fans as clubs scramble to negotiate last minute deals to bring in the players they need for the rest of the season.

Sky Sports News HD will broadcast comprehensive coverage of Transfer Deadline Day from 6am to midnight and as ever it promises to be an excitable affair with ‘Mr Deadline Day’ himself, Jim White (pictured left) bringing events to an exciting climax, usually accompanied by Big Ben’s bongs at 11pm.

Alongside the Deadline Day guru on Sky Sports News are fellow presenters Natalie Sawyer, David Jones, Rachel Wyse and chief news reporters including Bryan Swanson.  Sky Sports army of reporters will be on location outside some of the key locations as they look to get the biggest scoops on one of the biggest days of the football calendar.

Speaking of what to expect from Transfer Deadline Day, Jim White told Sky Sports News : “The unpredictability is part of it and it’s my job to make sure people don’t leave their sofa or the pub or wherever they’re watching it! But I think there will be plenty of activity. I’m going on in the build-up to the 11pm deadline and I’ll be on air with Natalie Sawyer, who is a great foil for me because she’s so level-headed. I’ll say something over the top and then she’ll bring it all back to earth again. I think we’re a really good team.”

Bookmaker Paddy Power are offering a special market of odds on ‘Jim White’s first post 9pm cliché’. Obvious frontrunners include “We can now reveal” and “The clock is ticking”; both priced at 5/1 and “Sky sources have informed me” at a seemingly generous 20/1. The full range of odds are as follows :

5/1 A Sky Sports exclusive
5/1 You’ll hear it here first
5/1 We can now reveal
5/1 The clock is ticking
11/2 Put pen to paper
9/1 If this is true
9/1 Last minute business
18/1 Spotted at the training ground
20/1 Two phones
20/1 Sky sources have informed me
25/1 Sensational breaking news
25/1 Have swooped to sign
25/1 Damp squib
25/1 The eleventh hour
33/1 Before the window slams shut
33/1 Spotted entering the ground
40/1 Come and get me plea
40/1 Weighing up his options
40/1 Looks set to snub
40/1 Dipped into the transfer market
40/1 Completed a dream move
40/1 The Tevez saga is over
50/1 Dismissed reports linking him with a move
50/1 Spotted at the airport
50/1 Gary Cotterill outside Spurs Lodge
66/1 Harry Redknapp speaking from his car window
66/1 Hold on to your hats
66/1 I’m like a kid on xmas eve
80/1 Right out of leftfield
80/1 Are football clubs the only people who still use fax machines?
100/1 Twitter is in meltdown

In addition to Sky Sports News HD coverage, fans can keep up to date on skysports.com or on the Sky Sports News iPad app.

It’s likely to be a slightly more sobre affair on the BBC with ‘Sportsday’ on the BBC Sport website running a live transfer deadline day text commentary from 8am which will run through until 1am on Wednesday.

The BBC Red Button will have regular transfer updates from midday with Football Focus presenter Dan Walker and opinion from Martin Keown and BBC Sports journalists.

The BBC News Channel will have regular updates throughout the day and at 6.30pm there will be a deadline day transfer update programme from the Match of the Day studio.

Match of the Day at 10.35pm on BBC One with Gary Lineker will feature action from five Premier League games plus a special transfer deadline update for the last 15 minutes of the programme at 11.50pm. Lee Dixon and Martin Keown will be on hand with their expert analysis of the transfer window action. (Viewers in Northern Ireland can see MOTD on BBC One from 11.05pm and in Scotland from 11.35pm).

Sky Sports Transfer Deadline Promo

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