Several applications will be needed to watch the games. The so called P2P apps stream different tv stations, mostly from Asia, which generally means that the language will be Chinese, but some are in English as well. I would suggest to download the applications as soon as possible because servers will definitely be overrun when the UEFA Euro 2008 begins.

Applications that allow you to watch the UEFA Euro 2008 Online:

Sopcast (Linux Version)
TVAnts
TVU Player

Those three applications should make a good start. It’s a bit difficulty to tell yet which stations will broadcast which games and I will definitely update this thread (or link to a new one) listing the games and the stations that broadcast them. You can be sure that most of the games will be available in one of these applications. Most channels overlap anyway and are available in most of these applications.

The project has more than 53000 members already who are currently deciding on the club that they would like to buy. The most popular club will be bought if it meets the requirements which are: 51% or more of the football club shares can be bought, it has no or a manageable debt, potential to reach the Premiership and the size of the stadium and public transport situation.

The idea is intriguing and it really could work. A social experiment so to speak of. I especially like the idea that the members decide where the money will be spend. All profits will be reinvested and it will be nice to see how that money is spend. Owners not only decide about new players but also on Youth Policy, Stadium and Infrastructure.

What I don’t like is the fact that it is possible to join at any time giving you the same voting power as someone who was there from day one on. It is a risk to invest the money at the moment, it might be not a risk at all in five years from now on. Some way to give members of the first hour a special position would have been nice. (hall of fame or something perhaps)

I also think that the whole project looks a bit like scam as well. While it surely is not with all the media coverage it got it remains hidden from the members who the initiators of the project are.

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I can’t see many changes in this version. TVU Networks are unfortunately not publishing release notes so I have to compare the old and new version by myself. The only change that I was able to find is a link to the program of that network that you could click on. Some stations are not there for the moment, I’m missing ABC for instance.

If you run into errors with TVU Player you should take a look at my tvu player faq which addresses some of the most common problems that are encountered. Please note that you do need a broadband connection for most channels, only the channels marked with low could probably be viewed without one.

I decided to add ten videos, if you want more let me know, I might add a second part soon then ;)

Should be something for everyone, let us start, shall we ?

They most likely will scan your IP and lookup your country from it. That means people from outside Britain won´t be able to view the matches on the BBC homepage. (or other homepages of other countries, you get my point I hope.) So, it would be impossible for an englishman, who is supporting his team in Germany, to view the live coverage on the BBC pages. As you all know, there are always ways to circumvent country checks, here is the one I suggest.

Last time it was ABC who did not allow their series to be viewed by people from outside the USA and the method that I described back then is still valid for the World Cup (or any other streaming content on the internet).

But this time I want to introduce a faster method which should work most of the time for you. Visit a website like whatismyproxy.com to check on your own IP. Remember this IP, you will come back to this site and check the IP again with a proxy enabled.

Search google using strings like “country proxy list”, “england proxy list” and the like. You will come up with search results like publicproxyservers.com or proxy server list. All show a table with proxies including the country the proxy is hosted. Browse for proxies that are located in the same country as the content provider of the streams.

Copy one of the IPs and remember the port. In Firefox open Tools –> Options. Select Connection Settings and select Manual Proxy Configuration. Add the IP to the HTTP Proxy Row and enter the Port in the field next to it. Click Use this proxy server for all protocols and test it by navigating to the whatismyproxy.com website again.
See if the page loads fast and the IP is different from the one the website displayed earlier when you checked your real IP.

If you see a different IP it means two things. First, the proxy is working (assuming it does not take ages to load pages) and second your are surfing relativly anonymous. The BBC website will check your IP and detect that you are coming from Britain and display their treasures for you. Note that it is still possible to detect your real IP by the means of Java for example.
If you have questions let me know, I´ll be glad to help out. The great advantage of this method is that you can check and use proxies no matter what operating system you are using. A disadvantage is that it could take a while until you find a fast working proxy that is located in the country you need. If you have troubles try charon to verify proxies, the how to is available from my ABC article.

Update:

Take a look at my worldcup preparations article for a working method that involves downloading a software. You will be able to see the matches live with english commentary.

“World Cup KickOff is all you will ever need for knowing all the match details for the upcoming World Cup 2006. Whether you use your mobile phone, MS Outlook, Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar, you can download and keep all the fixtures you are interested in so you will never miss a single game! Just download the calendar file and install it on your favoured software following the instructions on the left.”

This is really astonishing, great football skills if you ask me.. Enjoy it

Update: Here is the video that went viral shortly after it was released. Please note that this is an advertisement for Nike shoes. Ronaldinho is a fine player but this is even to much even for him.

It speaks for itself though that many viewers thought it could be real after watching it. Even the press was puzzled at first but after analysis it became clear that this was a trick animation and not the real deal.

But since we are at it already, why not show you some videos of Ronaldinho in real scenes.

The first mainly shows scenes from the Brazilian football national team, both in game and practice.

Here is a second video showing some scenes as a player for Barcelona.

The next video is a freestyle video at an event that probably has taken place in Brazil with teams from all over the world.

This video shows skills from the years 2003 to 2007.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s2h0HC8U3Y&feature=related

Here is a compilation of Ronaldinho’s dribbles and goals in the 2009 and 2010 season in Italy for Milan both nationally and internationally.