Install pplive on your system, make sure you chose english as your language. The options should appear at first start and you can change some settings like ports, connections and the like. Click ok or hit enter to leave the options. Select Play from the menu and you see a channel list on the left, probably lots of garbage if you don´t have the appropriate fonts installed on your system. But this does not matter.

The important channels are the following:

CCTV1, CCTV5 and probably Shanghai Sports

All three seem to be showing all games of the football worldcup live. Take a look at the boxtobox website for a complete schedule of the games and which station is broadcasting it.

I suggest you take a look at this tool if you can´t watch a game in tv.

Update:

Download the latest Tvuplayer version from Rapidshare and select the channel ESPN2, they show the games live and it´s working. Downloads also available from Badango and Rapidsharing.

Update 2:

I compiled a list of frequently asked questions that tries to answer some questions about the tvu player.

Update 3:

If TVUplayer does not connect you have the option to download either TVants or Sopcast and watch the worldcup or other sport events from those programs. (CCTV 5 is the channel, unfortunatly with chinese commentary)

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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.

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