So, today is Transfer Deadline Day™ and the machine that is football is going into over-drive. As football clubs try to thrash out last-minute deals and players try to escape the rumour mill, pandemonium ensues on Twitter. It would appear that every Twitter account related to football (and a fair few who aren't) have a source at a "major international airport", watching as Sergio Ronaldo, the £150 million, 100-goals-a-season super striker who endorses his own line of flashing boots and £1000 aftershave, comes striding through Manchester Airport, to sign for Citeh.
How did rumour spread before Twitter, TWOL asks?
Sky Sports News, who for the past 40 days has had a countdown to 11pm this evening which confused anyone who isn't British, are now showing a seconds column on said countdown! They have a work experience reporter outside every football ground in the country, ready to inform us that "Sky Sources have told us that" Sheikh Mansour wipes his arse with £50 notes.
Of course the Deadline™ means extraordinarily little because, from personal memory, United's signing of Berbatov and Citeh's signing of Robinho in 2008 were both finished after the Deadline™. Still, SSN has to appear exciting somehow, TWOL guesses.
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