Sky Sports News presenter Jim White was switched off, boxed up and stowed safely in a cupboard in Sky’s Isleworth premises after his deadline day broadcast ended.
The excitable Scot had been awake for 30 consecutive days and kept alive on a regular diet of transfer gossip and some crisps.
“It [Sky Sports presenter Jim White] was very hot to the touch and giving off a slight smell of burning, cheap perfume and poorly masked man musk,” a Sky Sports staff member told FourFourTwo.
“As it [White] slowly shut down, it [White] juddered a little and linked Loic Remy to a host of Premier League clubs, then made a cursory attempt to proposition Natalie Sawyer. Its [White’s] finger kept pointing, jabbing at an imaginary camera as if to indicate some kind of urgent transfer development.
“Then finally it [White] went off. It [White] folds up neatly into three and can be stashed away until the next time someone would listen to [the poorly informed speculation of a plastic Scotsman broken up by bi-minutely advert breaks].
White’s storage area is next to the charging point where Jeff Stelling is hooked up to the mains from Sunday to Saturday each week.
