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You can catch Premier League Football live in the UK on both Sky Sports and Setanta Sports. Both sets of channels require a monthly payment (a Sky sports package currently costs *** whilst Setanta costs £10 per month).
Depending on what country you are in you may also be able to find live Premier League games on the internet. Two of the most popular programs for watching these games are SopCast and TVAnts.
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| Busy Week |
| Friday, 29 February 2008 |
I've been really busy with work this week so haven't had any time to cover the horror injury to Eduardo (I'm sure everybody would like to wish him all the best for a very speedy recovery), with any luck he'll be back paying football again sooner rather than later. I'm not a fan of Arsenal at all but some things just go above club rivalry.
The other big news was Tottenham winning the Carling Cup, not only did they win but the really deserved it as well. Chelsea were out played for almost the whole game and the amount of Grant haters suddenly crawling out of the woodwork seems to be on the rise. Whilst tactically he might have got it wrong either way with the players Chelsea had on the pitch they should have been more competitive than what they were. Like I said in my opinion Spurs totally outplayed them, very little to do with tactics, more to do with players wanting it more.
So onto this weekends Premier League games. For the first time in a long while we have a full fixture list of the Saturday and Sunday. This weekend could be a pivot point in the title race as well, Arsenal now only have a 3 point lead over Manchester United and all doesn't seem well at the Emirates. I guess how they react this week might go quite a way to deciding where the Premier League title will go.
01.03. 15:00 Arsenal - Aston Villa
01.03. 15:00 Birmingham - Tottenham
01.03. 15:00 Derby - Sunderland
01.03. 15:00 Fulham - Manchester Utd
01.03. 15:00 Middlesbrough - Reading
01.03. 15:00 Newcastle - Blackburn
01.03. 15:00 West Ham - Chelsea
01.03. 17:15 Manchester City - Wigan
02.03. 13:30 Bolton - Liverpool
02.03. 16:00 Everton - Portsmouth |
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| Carling Cup Final - Spurs v Chelsea |
| Friday, 22 February 2008 |
| Don't forget that it's the Carling Cup final on Sunday. Kick-off is 3pm British time where Tottenham will be trying their hardest to put a new name on a trophy. Surely everybody must be getting sick off Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea winning everything by now?! Good luck Spurs! |
| posted by PaulB @ 14:01 |
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| European Hangover Anybody? |
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So as the first games of the knock-out stages of the Champions League are now out of the way it's the traditional time for the Premier League teams to suffer a European hangover. Whilst all the British representatives did well (Liverpool getting the best result) it will nice to get back to the much quicker English game, I know that I enjoy watching Premier League games much more than the Champions League.
So here's this weekends Premier League games:-
23.02. 12:45 Birmingham - Arsenal
23.02. 15:00 Fulham - West Ham
23.02. 15:00 Liverpool - Middlesbrough
23.02. 15:00 Portsmouth - Sunderland
23.02. 15:00 Wigan - Derby
23.02. 17:15 Newcastle - Manchester Utd
24.02. 12:30 Reading - Aston Villa
24.02. 15:00 Blackburn - Bolton
25.02. 20:00 Manchester City - Everton
Sky Sports will be showing Birmingham - Arsenal and Man City - Everton. I think Setanta are showing Newcastle - Man Utd.
As always I'll try and update over the weekend with details of the games available on SOPCast and TVAnts. |
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| More English Teams In Champions League Action Tonight |
| Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
Getting knocked out of the FA Cup by Barnsley one minute, beating an Inter Milan team that haven't lost since last September the next, it could only be Liverpool. To be fair it was a very one sided match once Inter were reduced to 10 men. They seemed very lazy and happy to just defend the 18 year box without pressing so they can have no argument over losing 2-0.
Another 2 English teams play in the second round of the Champions League tonight, Manchester United are away to Lyon whilst Arsenal play the holders AC Milan at home.
All the games (Arsenal - Milan, Fenerbache - Sevilla, Celtic - Barcelona and Lyon - Manchester United) are being across multiple channels on both the SOPCast and TVAnts applications. |
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| Is Benitez Getting Sacked? |
| Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
I've been speaking to quite a lot of Liverpool supporters over the last few days and it's been quite a shock to see how they've turned on the manager. Only a few weeks ago Benitez could do no wrong and it was the American owners that were the problem, ever since being knocked out of the FA Cup by Barnsley that seems to have changed.
Tonight in the Champions League second round Liverpool play an Inter Milan team that is widely regarded as the best team in Italy at the moment. I guess that the future of Rafa Benitez at Liverpool could largely depend on which Liverpool team turn up to play tonight. If Liverpool do lose then most of the Liverpool fans I've been speaking to would expect him to be sacked anytime in the next 2 weeks.
As an outsider my opinion is that other than a few lucky (yes they were more luck than judgement) cup results the Liverpool team now is no better than when Benitez took over. It's not like he hasn't been given his fair share of spends either but an insistence on buying second rate Spanish players from his homeland may be his downfall. It looks like jobs for the boys is not the best way of managing a football club. In saying that though it would be no real surprise if Liverpool do go on to beat Inter tonight, it just goes to show how inconsistent they are.
For anyone interested there are 4 Uefa Champions League 2nd round games being played tonight:-
Schalke - Porto, shown on channel Live5 on TVAnts
Roma - Real Madrid, CT2 on TVAnts
Olympiakos - Chelsea, Star Sports on TVAnts and SOPCast as well as channel Live3 on TVAnts.
Liverpol - Inter Milan, amongst the many channels showing this, Shanghai Sports on SOPCast and TVAnts, GuangDong Sports on SOPCast. |
| posted by PaulB @ 14:24 |
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| FA Cup 5th Round Live |
| Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
No Premier League action today because it's FA Cup 5th Round weekend. No doubting the big game today as Arsenal take on Man Utd at Old Trafford. In a year when more Premier League teams have been knocked out in the earlier rounds than many previous years this is going to result in yet another of the favourites going out early. Maybe this year wil be the year of a FA Cup upset.
FA Cup 5th Round Games
16.02. 12:30 Bristol Rovers - Southampton
16.02. 15:00 Cardiff - Wolves
16.02. 15:00 Chelsea - Huddersfield
16.02. 15:00 Coventry - West Brom
16.02. 15:00 Liverpool - Barnsley
16.02. 17:15 Manchester Utd - Arsenal
17.02. 14:00 Sheffield Utd - Middlesbrough
17.02. 16:00 Preston - Portsmouth
The BBC are showing Bristol Rovers - Southampton (as I type) and also the big Manchester United - Arsenal game this evening.
Tomorrow the BBC have Sheffield Utd - Middelsborough whilst Sky Sports are chipping in with Preston - Portsmouth.
Live on the internet the FA Cup receives great coverage:-
Bristol Rovers - Southampton, channels Star Sports, Shanghai Sports and Guangdong Sports on both TVAnts and SOPCast amongst the many available.
Liverpool - Barnslay, Star Sports on SOPCast TVAnts and channel viasat sport 1 on SOPCast.
Chelsea - Huddersfield, ESPN on SOPCast, Shanghai Sports on TVAnts and SOPCast.
Manchester United - Arsenal, just about every sports channel on both SOPCast and TVAnts you can find. |
| posted by PaulB @ 12:51 |
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| Live Games, 9th February |
| Saturday, 9 February 2008 |
Here's how you can catch today's Premier League games live:-
Sky Sports 1 are showing Aston Villa - Newcastle (King Kev the saviour still looking for his first win!!). This game is also showing on channels E-Soccer, True Sport1 and True Sport 5 on TVAnts and channel True Sport1 on SOPCast.
Derby - Spurs is available on True Sport 1 and Star Sports on both TVAnts and SOPCast.
Bolton - Portsmouth is showing on channel True Sport3 which is available on both SOPCast and TVAnts.
Everton - Reading, being shown on E-Soccer on TVAnts
That's about it for today, only one of the top 4 are in action although there are a couple of tasty relegation battle games being played. |
| posted by PaulB @ 12:04 |
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| Premier League Goes International |
| Friday, 8 February 2008 |
Well not this week is doesn't but if you believed everything in the press you'd think it was a done deal! To be honest I think this is inevitable, with the amount of American owners of Premier League teams and the recent playing of that so called sport (American Football) in the UK how long would it be before people thought of cashing in? The Premier League is X times more popular as a spectacle than the meat heads bumping into each other in America so it only makes sense that the amount of money to be made would be X time more!
Anyway, onto this weekend’s Premier League games, and there are some big ones in there:-
09.02. 12:45 Aston Villa - Newcastle
09.02. 15:00 Bolton - Portsmouth
09.02. 15:00 Derby - Tottenham
09.02. 15:00 Everton - Reading
09.02. 15:00 Middlesbrough - Fulham
09.02. 15:00 Sunderland - Wigan
09.02. 15:00 West Ham - Birmingham
10.02. 13:30 Manchester Utd - Manchester City
10.02. 16:00 Chelsea - Liverpool
Just in case anybody had forgot it is the 50th Anniversary of the Munich air disaster that effected Manchester United so much, expect the Manchester derby on Sunday to take on added significance. Although Liverpool appear to have written themselves out of them title race you should also expect the Chelsea Liverpool game to be a cracker! |
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| Super Bowl XLII |
| Sunday, 3 February 2008 |
Just to let everybody know that if you can't find any other way of watching the Super Bowl it will be shown live on all of the following SOPCast channels:-
Spowi-TV (In German)
B-Wire Sport (In German)
El Salvador TV
Viasat Sport 1
NASN
TBOAS1
If you're looking for the Fulham Villa Premier League game then you can find that on channel True Sport 1 on both TVAnts and SOPCast. That's all for now. |
| posted by PaulB @ 15:59 |
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| Weekend Of Sport, Premier League, Six Nations And The Super Bowl |
| Saturday, 2 February 2008 |
What a weekend this one is for sport. Not only have you got a full Premier League fixtures list to keep up with but the Six Nations gets underway and there is also the little matter of the Super Bowl on Sunday night.
Premier League Fixtures
02.02 12:45 Manchester City - Arsenal
02.02 15:00 Birmingham - Derby
02.02 15:00 Blackburn - Everton
02.02 15:00 Portsmouth - Chelsea
02.02 15:00 Reading - Bolton
02.02 15:00 Tottenham - Manchester Utd
02.02 15:00 Wigan - West Ham
02.02 17:15 Liverpool - Sunderland
03.02 13:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough
03.02 16:00 Fulham - Aston Villa
Today Sky Sports1 are showing Man City, Arsenal whilst Setanta are covering Liverpool, Sunderland (seriously, am I the only one getting pissed off with Setanta only covering bloody Liverpool games. I'm not a Liverpool fan, I pay £9.99 a month, for christs sake add a bit of variety!)
If you're stuck to using the internet the you can catch the following live:-
Man City - Arsenal, e-soccer on TVAnts.
Blackburn - Everton, True Sports 5 on TVAnts.
Spurs - Man Utd, e-soccer on TVAnts.
Portsmouth - Chelsea, StarSports on SOPCast and TVAnts.
Liverpool - Sunderland, StarSports on SOPCast,Tvants and e-soocer on TVAnts.
Six Nations Rugby
The Six Nations egg chasing tournament also gets underway today. The BBC provide excellent coverage (TV, Radio and Online) for every game but if you're stuck you can watch all the games online (including todays Ireland - Italy and England - Wales) by tuning in to the ESPN Philipines channel on SOPCast.
I'll bring more details on Sunday's Premier League live action and the Super Bowl tomorrow. |
| posted by PaulB @ 09:26 |
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