Free Premiership Football (incl Pay Per View)

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 January 2009 13:27 Written by Paul Betteridge Saturday, 17 January 2009 13:03

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You may not have realised the FA sells almost every premiership football match overseas to countries such as China, USA etc.  Most of these games are available over the internet using streaming video via P2P (peer to peer) networks.

The FA wants to encourage us in the UK for fork out over £50 to see a live premiership match.  Football is no longer a working class sport and you need to have few grand spare each year see the games.  I am myself an Arsenal fan (and off course I follow my local AFC Bournemouth) and have this year tried get tickets to see a match. 

 

 

Before I can buy tickets for an Arsenal match I had to get a membership.  I paid £30 to become a red member!!!

I thought that’s ok.  It’s a one off payment this season and I would like to see Arsenal at the new Emirates Stadium. 

I next tried to get some tickets for a couple of the Gunners games.  The first hurdle – I am not a season ticket holder.  I had to wait until season ticket holders completed their allocation.  So I tried again a few weeks later.  This time, only Silver members could get tickets.  I think silver members had to pay a ludicrous amount of money each year to be kept on a waiting list for a season ticket!  I think there is over a 10 year wait! 

Eventually the tickets were available for red members.  Excellent.  I went online to buy a couple of tickets, for my wife and myself. 

You would never believe that I had to have TWO memberships to get two tickets!  You can only buy one ticket per membership!  That would cost me £60 before the season had even started and it still would not guarantee tickets.  I phoned and asked if they did a cut down membership that didn’t come with the dvd, mouse mat etc so that I would pay say £15 for a membership but they do not do this!!! 

At this point I gave up.  What is the point of forking out £60 to be given the “chance” to get some tickets?  I looked at tickets prices and they range upwards from £40 per game. Ouch!  I thought that my local League 2 team was expensive at £20…

I did subscribe to Setanta last year allowed it to continue this year but after they hiked their prices up almost 25% from £9.99 to £12.99 I decided cancel (another long story!).

I now watch every Arsenal game online – unless it is on Skysports.

Using the following software you are not just restricted to Premiership matches.  You can get most live sports – be it Pay per view Boxing, NFL, NBA, Golf etc  You can also get the latest movies that are not even out in this country. 

Some channels will broadcast in English, some in English and with Chinese sub titles and some are in Chinese only. 

I also use the forums at http://www.freefootball.org before every game to determine which are the bestquality streams.

 

Software

PPLive - Streaming p2p Internet TV

Official Website: www.pplive.com
PPLIVE In English: http://www.pplive.com/en/download.html
Guide: PPLive Guide

Overview: PPLive is a Shareware Windows software for free online streaming TV programs. The software integrated peer-to-peer technology so it can provide the users with smooth TV programs with no interceptions. In P2P technology, everyone becomes a broadcaster without the cost of traditional streaming. The more users are online, the faster the programs can be loaded.
PPlive TV signals are mainly from the cable TV. Some channels can not be shown in PPLive. Currently, most of the media contents are TV channels from China.
PPLive is a Shareware, and no registration is needed.

PPStream - Streaming P2P Internet TV

Official Website: www.ppstream.com
Download 1: Official Download from PPStream
Guide: PPStream Guide

Overview: PPStream is probably the better peer to peer application, however it's not as user friendly and doesn't carry as many channels that carry Premiership footy.

 

Sopcast - Streaming P2P Internet TV

Official Website: www.sopcast.org
Download 1: Official Download from Sopcast
Guide: Sopcast Guide

Overview: Sopcast is an alternative to the software above and can show some premiership football in better quality than some of the other channels in the software above.

 

Coolstreaming - Streaming P2P Internet TV

Official Website: www.coolstreaming.us
Download 1: Official Download from Coolstreaming
Online Player: Here

TVAnts - Streaming P2P Internet TV

Official Website: www.coolstreaming.us
Guide: TVAnts Guide

 

ViViplay (TVKOO) - Streaming P2P Internet TV

Official Website: www.tvkoo.com
Download 1: Download from tvkoo.com
Guide: ViViPlay Guide
Web Player: Here

 

ViViplay (TVKOO) http://222.73.4.140/update/ViViPlay.exe

QQLive http://219.133.60.95:1080/qqtv/QQLive1.0Beta02.exe
http://www.coolstreaming.it/module/go.php?go=qqlive

Site that links to many other streaming software – in Italian but easy to navigate:
http://www.coolstreaming.it/


Help and Support on Getting Free Football

Please take a look at the guide for each of the software listed above. This will normally solve most problems. Below are also some very good resources.

Live Football forums: http://forum.freefootball.org   this is a forum where you can find out which channels to watch for the latest premiership football.

All the up and coming matches – resources for all the streams:
http://www.freefootball.org/

Using Radio Five Live for English Commentry

Watching streams on your TV


Channel Listings

Live Football Listings – Tells you which channel to tune to:
http://www.boxtobox.co.uk/

More football links: http://www.asiaplate.com/live.today.htm

All the up and coming matches – resources for all the streams:
http://www.freefootball.org/

The channels below can come and go... if it does work then move onto the next channel.

Direct Channel Links (also available in the zip file above)

CCTV 5
CDN
Dubai Sport
ERT Sat
ESPN.asx (download this and double click to run)
KanalD
KTV3
Ligtv1
Talpa TV


PPLive

Guangdong sports pplive://pp3.pplive.com:8000/tracker...live.com:8000;
On the regards sports pplive://pp3.pplive.com:8000/tracker...live.com:8000;
CCTV-5 pplive://pp3.pplive.com:8000/tracker...live.com:8000;
G-Sports pplive://pp2.pplive.com:8000/tracker...live.com:8000;
Soccer frequency channel pplive://pp3.pplive.com:8000/tracker...live.com:8000;
Guangdong sports (telecommunication) pplive://pp2.pplive.com:8000/tracker...live.com:8000;
ESPN sports essence pplive://pp2.pplive.com:8000/tracker...live.com:8000;


TV Ants
CCTV5tvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=d16642436976920c
ESPN sportstvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=c8639942f11a742b
ESPN (UBC)tvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=5f609042eb70d53e
SKY SPORTStvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=95d447435f4fdd16
Guangdong sportshttp://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl...language_tools
Shandong sportstvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=257e254336136556
Shaanxi ESPNtvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=108ba24259524f68

Sopcast
CCTV5 (test)sop://sop.sopcast.org:3919/channel-454
ESPN (test)sop://sop.sopcast.org:3919/channel-453
Star Sports() sop://sop.sopcast.org:3919/channel-456


Live information via bulletin boards of where each game is being played:
http://boards.ie/  go to Sports->Soccer-> and look for Live Streams for Matches near the top of the board listing. But this link may take you right to it:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=299079