Guide To Watching Champions League, Premiership And UEFA Cup Football Online
Step 4: Finding Channels Showing Games
Once you’ve logged into SopCast ignore the ‘Home’ tab and click on the ‘Channels’ tab. The channels are grouped by category and sensibly ‘Sports Channels’ is listed at the top. As you will see if you get this far, there are dozens of Sports Channels listed. The numbers in brackets next to the name of each channel is the number of peers streaming the channel. Channels with more peers usually have a better stream.
To watch a channel is easy - just double-click it. However, it can sometimes take a minute or two for a stream to start, so if you pick the wrong channel 9 times you could miss 15 mins of a game.
What I do is use this the fantastic Football4less site. This sites lists up-to-date details of which channels are covering which football games. Nearly all channels are covered so using this site can save you a lot of time. All you have to do is either click on the football league or tournament you want to watch online, or the date of the football match that you want to watch. For instance this page lists all the channels that are showing football games online tonight, including the UEFA Cup games.
Once you’ve found the game you want to watch look for a SopCast icon next to a channel as this will tell you that the channel is available on SopCast. Find this channel in SopCast, double-click it and once it’s buffered the game (usually takes 30-45 seconds) the match will start. The video may be a bit jerky at first, but will improve within a minute as you connect to more peers.
Step 5: In-Game Options
The game can be watched in the small SopCast window. If you click on the small icon in the bottom-right hand corner this will let you watch the game in Windows Media Player, where you can resize the window. Or you can click the ‘FS’ which will open the video Full Screen.
You can also right click on the video window to access other options, including volume controls.
I hope you found this guide useful and in time to watch the game you were looking for! If you have any issues or want to add any other points, then please leave a comment below.
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Comment by alan on 9 August 2008:
Nice idea but only because of extortionate prices we have to pay to watch live football!
Comment by 4:3 Defense on 4 August 2008:
Thanks for the guide on the sopcast
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Comment by I.Owens on 25 June 2008:
Go to http://www.freewebs.com/frankiegoestohollywood and you will find links to all the top football matches in the world. You can also find a schedule on the live football page for just about any live sport. There is even a section on there called live footy instantly where you don`t even need to download any free software, all you do isclick the play button and then sit back and enjoy the gam.
http://www.freewebs.com/frankiegoestohollywood
Comment by Mark on 4 October 2007:
Good guide, I normally use or both are good for sopcast links to champions league, english premiership, uefa cup and other european football.
Comment by Kenneth Doghudje on 28 September 2007:
hello,
i seem to be having problems using sopcast. is it that it’s only at match times that we can watch these stations listed? i can’t seem to get even the entertainment stations to play. it buffers most times up to 25% and reverts back to 0% making it difficult to watch anything.
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Comment by James Dalton on 15 August 2007:
This has been a lifesaver since my Cable company started charging extra for the football channels and cutting back on the NBA. I love living in this age of technolgy
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Comment by greenzoid on 2 May 2007:
Great tips thanks:)