Free Live Football Streams

October 2, 2005 6:16 AM

Free live European football streams. A Chinese website streaming all of the top European football that you can throw a stick at. Good quality realtime streams augmented by excitable Chinese commentators. Not sure of the legality of the enterprise but is worth a look all the same. If you are addicted to UEFA Champions League, or want to know how Roman Abramovich's Chelski are getting on then here is the place.
posted by ClanvidHorse (14 comments total)

IIRC, this might be illegal to view if the matches are broadcast by a carrier in your country. There was some ruckus about this in the Netherlands a few weeks ago.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:20 AM on October 2, 2005

I love you.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 7:47 AM on October 2, 2005

I would love you, but Safari tells me I can't see pages that start with pplive.

Please hope me.
posted by jmgorman at 7:51 AM on October 2, 2005

Try pirating Virtual PC. Pirates are not user-friendly people. They go yarr.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 7:53 AM on October 2, 2005

is it a format that will open natively in vPC?
posted by jmgorman at 7:54 AM on October 2, 2005

Um, sure, it's called ".exe" :D

here
posted by Pretty_Generic at 7:57 AM on October 2, 2005

/me is watching Commie commercials with great smoothness on QQTV; awaits Man City v Everton.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 8:00 AM on October 2, 2005

I kind of worked my way around the site a few weeks ago and downloaded some shady P2P software from there. Its very much an at your own risk thing but I have noticed no problems and watched a shedload of great games since then.
posted by ClanvidHorse at 8:02 AM on October 2, 2005

More please. Live p2p boxing! Live p2p Lost! Truly this is the golden age of communism.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 8:03 AM on October 2, 2005

Thanks P_G, I'm up to my neck in Chinese character downloads on a really old version of virtual PC trying to find this thing. ?Hopefully I'll get it going before my blues are done. Thanks.
posted by jmgorman at 8:04 AM on October 2, 2005

More info here.
posted by hippyboy at 8:46 AM on October 2, 2005

Pah. Fancy European nonsense, with the passing and the artful free kicks and the goals and the beautiful game.

Is there anywhere doing streams of crap British football from the lower divisions? I miss the Kop. (No, not the one you're thinking of, the real Kop.)
posted by jack_mo at 9:13 AM on October 2, 2005

jack_mo, no lower division games are shown in China. If they were, I'm sure someone would stream them.
Ever since cool_console broke there hasn't been an os x solution for these chinese streams. It's pirated Windows only in China, and despite what you might hear there's not the slightest hint of linux use, even among CS majors.
沸点(feidian (boiling point)) offers streams including cctv and espn and offers a mac client but it quits on launch in 10.4.
posted by Treeline at 12:07 PM on October 2, 2005

Ha! I knew Garcia put his ring in his mouth. Trying to fool the 4th only gets ya caught by the center, buddy.
posted by DieHipsterDie at 1:40 PM on October 3, 2005