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The window closed at 6pm, but VDV wasn't confirmed until noon the next day - the coverage stretched until late in the night partially due to the enormity of the VDV transfer itself, and whether we'd done it in time.
1755: You've got to love Tottenham on days like this, you just have to. They have five minutes to wrap it up, but get a load of this. Sky Sports News are claiming a deal could - COULD - be done for the Londoners to sign Netherlands international Rafael van der Vaartfrom Real Madrid. Unbelievable.
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2045: Right, folks, I am going to love you and leave you. Whether or not Rafael van der Vaart's move to Tottenham has gone through in time, I'm afraid, remains a mystery, and with no-one at the club available for comment for the past few hours we've decided to call this commentary done.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8954459.stm
I think this is pretty much the birth of modern day "Levy Time". Whether we'll see a deal that late and that big happen again remains to be seen.
I remember reading this at the time just as I got home from work, was mental, jumped straight on here and caught up with the insanity...
Easily the best transfer window event ever.