.....from the 6th May to 13th May. Our last two games - the 6th and 13th of May. It will be the first away game I haven't watched this season and the second home game I haven't attended. I'll likely miss us seeing out the last couple of games of the season without too much at stake, but what if we're in a position to challenge for the title and I'm 35,000ft above the action? Why didn't I check?! What the fuck do I do now?!
Posted Apr 17, 2012, 3:22 PM UTC
I can send you download links once they happen if you want to watch the games later. Just PM on those days.
Thanks very much, this could work well for the Newcastle match. If the hotel has a half decent internet connection I should be able to isolate myself long enough to download the match and watch it the day after without catching scores :)
Noice! I'll send ya a link. Just remember to message me on the day of.
And if you haven't already... download VLC media player on your computer. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Why VLC over the standard Sopcast player?
Not sure of sopcasts capabilities, but thought that was used for streams only. VLC plays any video format you can name and the soccer forum i download the games from, its hard telling what format they will be in...flv..mkv...mov...etc. If youre wanting to watch the game after the game has been played from a download, vlc is the media player standard. Happy to hear about sopcasts capabilities though. I use a slingbox from my parents place to watch games live, use front row sports on occassion, or veetle. During the weekday games im at work..so gotta download them later and pray to yaya toure i dont catch a glimpse of the score.
Okay, firstly calm down, we can fix this. Now, secondly, and this is very important, go and look at yourself in the mirror and think about what you've done.
Okay, so do you have an Android phone? Brilliant! Download sopcast and watch a stream. Don't worry about data charges, your team needs you.
iPhone man, huh? Well this is getting embarrassing. Where are you going on holiday? Magaluf? Ibiza? Benidorm? Brilliant! Just go to a pub - they're all English and they all have Sky Sports.
What? You're going to a proper country, like France, or Japan? Oh dear, oh dear. Can you justify bringing a laptop? Get Sopcast for that, find a wifi hotspot, let the good times roll!
Don't have a laptop? Buy one!
Oh, so you're not going to a proper country? You're trekking along the Amazon? Eww. Well you're going to have to get someone to tape the games for you and when you come back don't look at anything or talk to anyone. Go straight home, draw the curtains, unplug the phones, and watch the matches back-to-back. It's the only way.
I am calm, I do have an android, don't have an iphone and am completely prepared to pay whatever astronomical data charges I must.
However, the 6th of May is a 13.30 kick off. My flight is (of course from fucking Manchester airport) at 10am so I'll be in the air. I'm awaiting conformation from the airline on whether they have fitted wifi in their planes yet.
The match on the 13th hasn't been announced yet, but looking at my flight times I doubt I'll be able to catch it at any time.
Lastly, I'm going to Sharm, so enough English knob heads for me to catch a glimpse of the scores on the back of a copy of The Sun or overhear a snatch of Sky Sports News over the sound of full English's being prepared in Harry's Bar or some such place.
In summary, it's all fucked.
I watched the first half of the 6-2 Man Utd game from Sopcast somewhere between Los Angeles and Houston, Texas. It's definitely doable. Just prepare yourself for an entire flight looking at you like you're a prospective terrorist when you completely fucking lose it at the scoreline midflight.