[Sky Sports HQ. Isleworth. Friday April 13. 08:00 BST.]
The Sky Sports News Friday morning panel.
Round table. Coffee mugs that nobody drank from on air. The graphic across the bottom of the screen running on a loop:CRYSTAL PALACE - UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE QF WINNERS, 4-1 AGG VS SALZBURG. FA CUP SEMI-FINAL: WEMBLEY, SAT APR 21. PL: 2ND, 77 PTS, 7 GAMES LEFT. EUROPA LEAGUE SF DRAW ANNOUNCED 12:00 BST.
Three pundits in the chairs across the desk from the presenter.
Thierry Henry on the left in a charcoal three-piece suit. Jamie Carragher in the middle in a navy crew-neck. Gary Neville on the right in a black turtleneck.
I was watching it in the kitchen at home with my second coffee in my hand and Emma still asleep upstairs and the door to the hallway pulled to so the noise would not wake her.
The presenter ran the numbers first. The graphic put them up side by side the way the graphic was going to put them up side by side on every channel for the rest of the day.
