| Thanks to the miracle of modern technology its now | | | | The more people that then watch these channels at |
| possible to watch live football (Soccer) or any other | | | | any given time the stronger the signal gets as your |
| popular sports on your PC free of charge. In order to | | | | computer will act as sort of a repeater, so while you |
| watch the live games you must first download one of | | | | are watching you are actually strenghening the signal |
| the free P2P programs that are widely available. | | | | for everyone else. Currently Sopcast and TVU seem |
| Currently there is around eight of these p2p programs | | | | to the most popular p2p program to use, probably |
| available on the net but as with any software i'm sure | | | | because they are both Spyware / popup free and |
| more will appear in the future. The main eight | | | | thousands of channels can be found from ESPN, Star |
| programs are PPlive, Sopcast, TVU Player, Pcast, | | | | Sports, Sport Channel 1, 2, 3 and 4, SHTV, Guangdong |
| PPstream, TVants, PPmate anf TVkoo. These p2p | | | | Sports, the list is endless. According to statistics |
| programs all work in relatively the same way, firstly | | | | Sopcast has been downloaded by over 2 million |
| you install the freeware program onto your computer. | | | | people and hundreds of thousands of people could |
| Within each program is a channel list, when the channel | | | | watch the bigger games. PPlive used to be the most |
| you want to watch is clicked on it will launch in the | | | | popular but now will only broadcast in China. The |
| player. However as most of these programs are | | | | football games that can be found on these channels |
| developed in Asia you may find some of the channel | | | | include all English and European football leagues, |
| lists are in Chinese, Korean, Japenese etc This | | | | Champions League, International football, russian |
| program can easily be solved by a quick search for | | | | football leagues, Chinese Ultra League, again the list is |
| the thousands of sites providing live schedules or even | | | | pretty much endless. Outside of football you can also |
| links from their sites direct to the football games. The | | | | find live cricket, tennis, boxing, American Football, Ice |
| channels actually originate from people sharing their | | | | Hockey and any other popular worlwide sports. So the |
| TV signal, so if you had a TV card installed on your | | | | arguments for becoming a fan of football over the |
| computer you could also share your channels with | | | | internet are quite suffient, its free, easy to use, instant |
| everyone else. Most of the streaming football or other | | | | and extremely convinient. All you need is a computer, |
| major sports will have volunteers who will agree to | | | | online access and of the course the passion to watch |
| share their TV stations for each and every live match. | | | | live football on your PC. |