Live Football Streaming

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What is Streaming?  Streaming for Beginners  Streaming Software  Where to find the games?

What is Streaming?

In very basic terms, Streaming is watching a live or recorded TV event, through the internet on your computer.
The main difference is that as the show you are watching is on the net, it could originate from any country in the world.
How it gets on the net is usually by someone linking their TV or satellite signal to their computer, uploading the signal to the net and then advertising the link so that others can view the broadcast.
You then click the link and it plays in a compatible media player on your computer.
Before we go any further, most of the streams that are available on the internet are illegal. They are being streamed by people infringing the copyright of the original broadcaster, however, there is a very grey area with regards to watching said streams, and as far as we are aware no persons has ever been prosecuted for watching a stream.
It is not the same as illegally downloading music or video, as after the stream is watched it's gone!


Streaming for beginners

The basic idea is that you click on an internet link, it opens up a website or stand alone popup player and you watch the game.
Now as these streams are hosted all over the world, they are set up on many different video streaming sites, this enables lots of people to view the stream all at same time.
Many of the streams play through normal media players, example, Adobe Flash, but some use their own player and you must have the correct software on your system to view the stream.
The software is free and you only have to download it once. See the Streaming Software section for all the must have programs and download links.
When you see a stream link, it will usually tell you at the side which player is needed to view said stream, if you click the link and do not have the necassary software installed, it will either tell you and give you a link to the correct software or not work at all.

So lets say you have downloaded the correct software on your system, you do not have to open any programs to view the streams, simply click the link and your system will auto detect your software and play the stream, job done you should be now watching!
For the best possble results use Firefox or Google Chrome as your default web browser.

No picture - Poor quality or slow - Foreign commentary - Screen freezes - Stream removed
There are many reasons why when you click a link the stream does no appear, here are just a few :-
1) The link is dead, old or invalid 2) There are too many people trying to watch the same stream 3) You do not have the correct software installed.

Poor quality issues again are due to a number of factors including :-
1) The original uploader is using a poor connection or equipment 2) Your internet connection speed is poor 3) Your computer's memory cache is to high ( On the top of your browser, click Tools,Internet options,Delete Browsing history,Delete temporary internet files) this is a good practice to do, even if you don't watch streams.
4) There are too many people trying to watch the same stream 5) The video streaming provider is having issues 6) Your PC is running with low resources, not enough Ram, Video card, CPU too slow.

Some streams will only have foreign commentary, this is due to the fact that the game is not intended to be viewed anywhere in your country.

Screen Freezes are usually due to software issues or bad weather anywhere along the chain, wait for it to clear or refresh the page.

Streams are usually removed due to copyright issues, the copyright holder have contacted the video streaming provider and forced them to remove it.

If you get any of the above problems, simply try another stream link.

Streaming Software   Click the blue links to download the software.

There are many streaming software programs that people use around the world, but these are the most popular ones. Download these four frst and ad hoc after that.
Sopcast  TVU  Veetle  Vshare   Others complete list  


Where to find the games?    Click the blue links.
Here we have a list of some of the best sites we use to find football streams. Click the blue links to take you to the sites.
West Ham United links will appear here on match days if available. Because of our relegation to the Championship, streams may be very limited.
For West Ham United live Streams Click HERE