Rafael Van der Vaart

The genius of Transfer Deadline Day

"So, as it stands - where do you stand on where <insert player's name here> stands right now?” 

A typical exchange between a presenter and correspondent on Transfer Deadline Day, or as one of the UK's more excitable sports broadcasters calls it - TDD.

Ever since it was introduced by FIFA in the 2002-03 season, TDD (that's what I'm calling it from now on, too) has become the most exciting, entertaining day in the football calendar. 

It's more exciting than pretty much every World Cup final since 1990 (I'll admit 2006 was pretty exciting).  What's more, we get two of them, the end of the pre-season transfer window and the mid-season transfer window.