Hayley McQueen on Deadline Day Drama
Hayley McQueen will be a familiar face to millions of football fans for her work on Sky Sports News, whose studios are based in Osterley, west London. The station’s coverage of the end of the winter transfer window, deadline day, has become as iconic and dramatic as the window itself. By Kait Borsay
For McQueen, who’s worked the last five deadline days at Sky Sports News, it’s not just about one day.
“It’s a culmination of a whole month’s worth of work and reporting,” she said. “Sky Sports are very good at it, there’s a beginning, middle and an end. Whilst we don’t think we’ve created a monster, we’ve definitely created something special.”
This year business throughout the window was on a par with 2014, some £130m was spent. Chelsea made the most costly signing of deadline day, w