Tales from transfer windows - part 1

Three words that when mentioned ensure most managers and club personnel break out into a cold sweat, have agents rubbing their hands in glee, get Jim White hyperventilating and supporters readying their ‘announce someone’ Tweets.

And the players? They are just kind of caught up in the middle of it all, chess pieces on a board to be moved around.

Two decades ago, the transfer deadline was on March 31.