With the ever increasing cost of watching live football, combined with advances in streaming technology it was inevitable that eventually the way in which we watch live football would start to change. Welcome to the world of SOPCast and TVUPlayer, two free ways of watching live football online!

SOPCast Streaming Software - Live Football

No matter what your football interest, whether it be the English Premier League, the Scottish SPL, the Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A or even the Champions League or international football including the World Cup and European Cup competitions, SOPCast and the many channels available will be able to offer you something.

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SOPCast allows people to share media in the form of video streams. As opposed to traditional video streaming this means that the more users watching a stream the better the chance that each user will get a better quality picture (the more people sharing the better), this makes it ideal for watcking live sports events such as football matches. Using SOPCast is a simple affair for the experienced computer user, novice users might find it easier to use TVUPlayer.

  1. Download SOPCast (Be patient) and install.
  2. Configure your Windows Media player for this type of media by manually setting the buffer to 30 seconds.
  3. A full daily schedule is available here. Alernatively for direct links to all the live games use this service.
  4. After a short delay whilst your channel buffers your Windows Media Player should then start showing whatever live football game you have chosen. Some channels show games with English commentary, whilst others don't.

SOPCast offers some advanced uses including the ability to share streams around a LAN. By using one copy of the program as the "node" you can make the most of whatever you incoming bandwidth is. In order to share your football around your LAN all you have to do is to copy the stream location from Windows Media Player File Properties, this will even work on a Pocket PC!

As mentioned SOPCast is not the easiest way of watching live football over the internet, for those of your struggling to watch a match and who don't need the more advanced features then TVUPlayer might be a better way of getting your live football fix, especially when 3pm is getting ever closer on a Saturday afternoon.