It probably says everything about the place transfer deadline day has in modern sport that for the past year the National Football Museum has been displaying a yellow tie in the same glass cabinet as one of John Motsons sheepskins and the old Spitting Image puppet of Gary Lineker. It belongs to Jim White, the Sky Sports presenter who is now so synonymous with the first day of September the cameras actually follow him from his car and through the air-conditioned corridors to begin his shift, wearing the important look of a prime minister who has just cut short his holiday to take care of some urgent business. A symbol of one of the biggest days in the football calendar, Kevin Moore, the museum director, said on the historic day that yellow piece of cloth was handed over.
This part of the year certainly makes strangely addictive viewing even if it is difficult to think that anything on Monday will ever trump that night, six years ago, when the Abu Dhabi United Group took control at Manchester City and introduced themselves by spraying out big-money offers for just about every superstar footballer who might be available including, as mentioned here before, a £30m bid for Lionel Messi in one of the classic Garry Cook moments (after a comment about its getting messy was misheard on a telephone line from Abu Dhabi and Manchester and somehow became lets get Messi).
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