Bananaman trolls Italian TV reporter on Deadline Day

Published Feb. 1, 2016 4:23 p.m. ET

Danny Michallik

Transfer deadline day may have offered little in terms of big-money signings on Monday, but the entertainment value of the live, around-the-clock TV coverage outside football stadiums across England is still very much alive.

As amusing as it is to see the most ardent supporters flock around a reporter and try to snag some face time, this is exactly why British television outlets no longer send their reporters to club grounds on Feb. 1.

Case in point: A Sportitalia correspondent became the latest high-profile target of deadline-day pranks when a man wielding a large, inflatable banana shamelessly interrupted his live take outside Stamford Bridge.

This year's deadline day purple dildo moment comes via an Italian with an inflatable banana https://t.co/vvlztfOPC0
— Ian Prior (@ianprior) February 1, 2016

The reporter was having none of it.

An inflatable banana!? Is he trying to give the purple adult toy guy a run for his money or what?

Priceless.