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