Earlier this year Jim White was at Wembley working as a host for the Football League at the Carabao Cup final between Manchester United and Newcastle. United owner Avram Glazer entered the room and a familiar instinct kicked in.
‘I just desperately wanted to get my phone out and get some quotes from him,’ recalls White. ‘The next day I could have had: “This morning on talkSPORT, a world exclusive: Avram Glazer speaks to us. Avram are you in the last days of your ownership?”
‘But I was there for the EFL. So I couldn’t.