Thanks for all the HBO tips. Being a technical dinosaur I am going to leave it to one of my kids to sort out!

My elder sister and her friends, would often go to her room and play records, usually load as we were basically latch door kids, (dad always in the pub, mum worked in a pub) and I kinda grew up with an eclectic taste in music. I have overcome my brief forray of being afraid of crowds to go to this years IW Festival. Normally I'd walk the site and take in the minor stages, and have found some great act there, but this year just going to see one act on the Friday, Main stage The Islands own Wetleg, and looking forward to the Cure on the Sunday as a closure. Agian the Islands own Level 42 are playing on the Sunday, but early and all acts mentioned have never seen but love their stuff.

Good shout Rob, never heard that before, but will check out their stuff on Spotify if its there.

Ah then my apologise Naz I gave you incorrect information.

Morning all. Alan IoW - I was in the US a couple of years ago, and one of the stations on Sirus XM did something similar. One of the songs played was this hidden gem - [Link]

Popped into the TV this morning to see when Stereo in Underground was on Rewind TV next, its a Music station based on 70's and 80's stuff that in part shows stuff that you don't normally get to hear. Things like The Monochrome Set, The Godfathers, PIL, they do include stuff from acts such as Elvis Costello Talking heads and Madness, but the less well know stuff and chuck in the odd classic too. The point of this post is that as I was going through the Freeview listing on Ch81, below the channel below they are showing today, The Miracle of 34th Street - WTF Christmas TV already!

On TNT it is broadcast, on HBO it is streamed 1-to-1 so you would expect some delay on HBO.

I watched the game on HBO Max app as I have it as a part of my Sky package. Took me about two minutes to set it up by scanning the QR code on the screen. No lag at all but don't know what the delay is against watching on TNT as I refuse to pay for that!

I think BBC still have the Wimbledon Tennis rights but for how long.

Checked the HBO sports schedule and it says the Final is being shown from 3pm

Surely, if you're a TNT subscriber (like me), there's no point in paying £5 to watch on HBO

Naz you won’t be able to watch via HBO unless you’re a TNT subscriber.

Did you get the QR code to log-in from? You need to set up an HBO account as well, but it is all free. Be interested to hear how you get on, as this will obviously save me the extra cost of TNT through Sky.

Naz. That's correct. However, there is one minor issue and that's the time lag between the two (we have TNT (through Sky). Last night I put the game on HBO to start with. A bit later on my son started watching the 2nd half in another room. I was out of both rooms when Mateta scored and my son called out "goal" from his room (the TNT feed on 410), by the time I go there, Mateta had finished celebrating - the cross hadn't even been put in for him to score from on the HBO feed!

If Blackman hadn't had temperament issues he'd have had a Premier League career.

I have Sky Sports, not TNT. But it seemed last night that as well as TNT the match was also on HBO Max which is now part of my Sky package. After multiple attempts at logging in I gave up. But I might try again on Saturday, particularly if younger tech-savvy folk are around.

Palace’s win last night has a knock on effect for the League cup draw, 4 clubs will have to play in the preliminary round, York, Rochdale, Tranmere and Crawley which means a long trip for one club

Andre Blackman’s best moment in a Celtic shirt? [Link]

But we let Blackman go because of his attitude rather than his obvious talent.

Trigs 1st in Scot Prem League more like top of L2. Remember Andre Blackman - we released him in early 2011 and later that year he played 3 SPL matches for Celtic.

That was a poor game of football as you’d expect from mid table Premier League vs equivalent of Barry Island FC. What it does do is give Palave a spot in the Europa League next season which they will/should want to win because they won’t get relegated but also won’t qualify for a champions league place via the league table.

Well done Palace.

15th in the Prmier League looks pretty much on a level with 8th in Spain. Palace were the better side but spent the last 20 minutes trying to disguise it.

Hurrah!

*quota