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