Ultimate Football Results is an extension for the Google Chrome browser that brings football news to the web browser. The extension adds a single icon to the address bar of the browser upon installation. A click on that icon opens an overlay window with four information panels.

Each panel or frame can be configured individually to display the table, results or fixtures of a specific league or tournament. The extension supports all major and minor European leagues, from the English Premier League and the German Bundesliga to the Italian Series A, the Spanish Liga and the UEFA champions league and Europa League. It is all there.

Each frame can be configured individually to display table, results or fixtures for a specified league or tournament. Even better, a total of four tabs, each with four frames, can be configured in the options.

Football fans only interested in one league could for instance display all three in three different frames in the Home tab, add four European leagues under Europe, League One or Two in the Other tab and finally the FA cup, Champions League and European League under Knockout Cups.

First time users can configure the extension with a right-click on the icon and the selection of options. Here it is then possible to select a league or tournament and the type of news that should be displayed in the selected frame.

Some information that are presented in a frame can be clicked on. Game results for instance lead to game stats that list the goal scorers, bookings, match stats and links to text commentary of the game, the team list and the next result (that is the next game that has been played in that particular league or cup).

Ultimate Football Results is currently not including national teams, the World cup, Euro cup or any other cup that is played in the world with national teams. The extension lacks women football, non European leagues and lower divisions with the exception of League One and League Two. Adding those would certainly improve the extension further.

It sometimes takes a few seconds before the window is rendered and the results displayed. This can be a issue as there is no indication that news are loaded.

Google Chrome users can download and install Ultimate Football Results from the official Chrome Web Store.

Firefox users can try Footiefox which offers more leagues and countries, live notifications but less detailed information about each game.

The extension Eplsite: Watch Live Football Streaming is basically providing quick access to the service offered at Eplsite which lists live football streamings that can be viewed in the web browser with the only requirement being that Flash is installed.

The site concentrates on the UK football scene which is definitely one of the finest in the world but does offer matches without English teams as well. The extension will place an icon in the Google Chrome address toolbar that display the available matches upon selection.

Today’s matches include for instance AC Milan vs. Manchester United and Olympique Lyon vs. Real Madrid. The live football streams are displayed in a new window after clicking on a link.

The quality is ok but not excellent but good enough considering that it is free to watch. The site includes a small chat applet that can be used to chat with other viewers while watching the stream.

The extension is helpful for users who do not want to visit the Eplsite directly regularly to find out which matches they broadcast live on that day. Everyone else who just wants to watch the major events like the Champions League or Euro League may be better of by visiting the site on those match days to find out which football games are offered.

The extension is only available for Google Chrome and can be downloaded directly from the official Google Chrome extension gallery.

The only viable alternative if TV stations are not showing the Champions League at all or only one of the games is to watch it online. The website One Tip A Day have updated their Watch Champions League Free article in time for the quarter finales. The guide concentrates on the TV streaming software Sopcast which offers an English interface and is generally easy to use.

The article contains a few tips that aid new users plus information on how to obtain the channel names that stream the Champions League games. Additional information about Sopcast, the recently reviewed Sopcast Filter or PC TV are available here on Ghacks as well.

Only one question remains: Which team are you routing for?

Best of all, you can watch the Champions League and UEFA Cup matches for free. All you need is to download a software that will be used as a client to receive the stream and display it on your computer. There are several possibilities to watch the Champions League match between AC Milan and Manchester United and I try to list them all in the next paragraph. I’m only listing the channels for the Sopcast application, this should be enough for everyone to enjoy the Champions League and UEFA matches.

• 2.5.2007 – 20:45 CET – Milan vs. Manchester: ESPN Asia, Sports Channel 3, Makaiko Sports and Gdtv-sports
• 3.5.2007 – 20:45 CET – Sevilla vs. Osasuna: Gdtv-sports, Shanghai GSports
• 3.5.2007 – 20:45 CET – Werder Bremen vs. Espanyol: Shanghai East TV

One Tip a Day posted a nice guide on how to watch Champions League, the UEFA cup, Premiere League and many other European soccer leagues using a free program called SopCast. The only drawback of such an application is of course that they rarely have the capacities to stream all games simultaneously. Fortunately for us SopCast streams different channels that show different games. Taking the Champions League games of yesterday as an example it was possible to watch three of the four games in SopCast.

Here is a quick rundown of the guide to watch Champions League at One Tip a Day.

• Download the free Sopcast (Broadband Connection required)
• Install Sopcast
• Configure it. Select login as anonymous and always login on this computer
• Finding the sports channels. The author suggests to use the website football 4 less which posts weekly schedules of all Champions League, UEFA Cup and national leagues on their website.
• That is it. Enjoy the games.