How to watch football online for free

Whilst both Sky and Setanta are marketing themselves as the big players in the live football market, you don’t have to re-mortgage your house just yet to watch the matches. Depending on the package that you have with Sky, you could be spending up to £40 per month for your TV. When you add on the £9.99 for Setanta’s live games and even the £50-60 for Sky’s PremPlus offerings, your season’s spend on live football starts working out as expensive as a season ticket for a mid-sized Premiership club.

Luckily, this is where the Internet can help you out! You can watch live games every weekend and also during the week. Games will vary between Premiership, FA Cup, Champions League and Internationals. Whenever I’ve personally wanted to watch a match, I’ve always found something suitable and entertaining.

The piece of software that you need to download is called Sopcast. This is a very easy application to use and the instructions are provided in English. Which is quite unlike the much advocated PPLive which is hard to understand and configure due to the software being written in Chinese.

Once you have installed Sopcast, navigate your way to this page. This site contains up-to-date schedules listing many football matches from across the globe. It would be a great idea to keep this site bookmarked for easy access. There are even links on here to watch the games using other players, in case you find that Sopcast doesn’t work out so well for you. To watch a match, simply click on the Sopcast link next to the game listing.

Tips:

• If you have a faster Internet connection you will find that you can connect to the matches better and that you will have less buffering during the match. Games can get busy, especially high-profile Premiership matches.
• Try and keep your connection as free as possible whilst watching matches. If you like to listen to music or download updates for your software, pause these downloads until after your match has finished.
• Sometimes the matches that you will watch do not have English commentary. You can often find a radio station online that is covering the game. What I like to do, is pause the football stream until a certain point has happened – such as a corner is won or a shot/foul occurs. Then, once you hear that incident in the commentary via the radio link, unpause the football and you can watch the game in sync with English commentary. This tip is a personal favourite of mine, and it works the other way around too.

Enjoy the football!

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