A couple of years ago, English football's Transfer Deadline Day reached a new low when a young chap decided to try and poke a sex toy into the ear of Sky Sports' reporter Alan Irwin.

It's Deadline Day across Europe today and on Italian TV, instead of a sex toy, one fellow decided to annoy a football journalist with an inflatable banana while he was delivering a live report.

As you can imagine, the reporter reacted calmly...

The Italian #DeadlineDay just peaked...
(via: @TheFootballRep)https://t.co/zA6uO3Kg1N

— BreatheSport (@BreatheSport) February 1, 2016