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Sky’s coverage of Transfer Deadline Day is hastening its extinction by choosing tedious despondency

Posted on 31/08/2024 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

The last Friday of a horrible August. It’s rained nearly every day this summer, and I was feeling under the weather. I had Mpox (or Covid) of the ankle having tweaked it on some slimy steps (forty-something man problems), and … Continue reading →

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The miserable truth behind Sky’s coverage of ‘Transfer Deadline Day’ (Revisited).

Posted on 28/08/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

This is a reposting of an article I wrote in the build-up to Sky’s coverage of Transfer Deadline Day last summer. As expected Transfer Deadline Day managed to be addictive, compelling and amateurish, occasionally at the same time. You can … Continue reading →

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The miserable truth behind Sky’s coverage of ‘Transfer Deadline Day’.

Posted on 01/09/2013 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With each passing year Sky’s coverage of ‘Transfer Deadline Day’ seems to get bigger, more preposterous and above all peculiar. Peculiar in that ‘Transfer Deadline Day’ is now marketed and sold as its own event. That in itself is alarming, … Continue reading →

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