Public service announcement

Just in case you didn't know, and with apologies to readers outside the UK, Sky Sports 1 is free today on Freeview channel 11 (Pick TV). Highlights include Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday at lunchtime and Swansea v Man Utd at teatime.

They're only doing it to try and nobble BT Sport's big day (whose live coverage features the opening game of the Premier League season, Liverpool v Stoke at 12.45pm), but the important thing here is that, for the first time in twenty-odd years there's an actual live top-division English league game on national terrestrial television (even if it does feature Manchester bloody United).