Tuesday 31 January 2012

Closing the Football Transfer Window


At 11pm Tuesday tonight, The football transfer window will shut for the final time in the 2011/2012 football season.

The BBC and Sky will cover the transfer deadline day with special programmes and live news updates on their news channels.

They will also produce live Premier league football coverage and highlights as five Premier League games and a full night of Championship games take place.

Sky Sports News will merge its Deadline Day coverage with a Gillette Soccer Special from 7:30pm until 10:15pm. So, as some important fixtures are underway, clubs will also be trying to finalise important signings before the window closes.

The Soccer Special panel will be in their studio while Jim White, Natalie Sawyer and Bryan Swanson will be live in the Sky Sports News newsroom with all the latest twists.

Sky will have reporters at all the key games while other reporters will be chasing all the key transfer deals, checking the rumours, sorting fact from fiction.

Also, Manchester City travel to Goodison park to take on Everton, Live on Sky Sports 2.

On The BBC, viewers will be able to keep across the latest transfer news from midday with regular updates from Football Focus presenter Dan Walker with opinion from Martin Keown and BBC Sport journalists via the Red Button.

The BBC News Channel will have updates throughout the day and at 6:30pm there will be a deadline day transfer update programme from the Match of the Day studio.

At 10:35pm on BBC One – Match of the Day with Gary Lineker and the team, featuring action from the Premier League plus a special transfer deadline update for the last 15 minutes of the programme at about 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).