Pat from Poole

Is it £88 for the VPN plus the £120 for the season? Do you need a static IP for this incase your public IP address changes and messes up the DNS link?

You don't need VPN; just go for Smart DNS; it's $4.95 per month, about £3 in our money. The Al Jazeera site is $135 for the season, about £80. I've just taken it for a month at $19 in case SKY somehow get an injunction against them.

Not sure about the IP address bit. It's very simple to install the Smart DNS, just go to the Overplay site, it's a 3 or 4-step process which takes 2 minutes.

They're currently showing the following friendly games on their HD channels:

Belgium v France, Portugal v Holland, England v Scotland, Real Madrid v Barcelona, Evian v Sochaux. Plus an edition of Prem League Netbusters.

Plus a whole load of stuff on their non-HD channels.

It's very ace.

So I guess you still need Overplay at an additional $4.95/month?

Correct. Well worth it though.

Also, they've just increased the number of sports channels to 16. They've got ridiculous amounts of football on there. Schedule of live stuff is as below:

http://www.en.aljazeerasport.tv/Schedule

Al Jazeera Sport is the future. SKY should be concerned about them, methinks.

I also have this. It is excellent.

West Brom v Saints on Al Jazeera Sport HD5 on Saturday. Bring it on.

The9 will be genuinely chuffed for Lambert.

Buttner would be a good shout; could also be a very decent option at left-mid. Thought he was signing for a Turkish club though ( Besiktas?)

Cheats have still got twice as many season-ticket holders as Boscombe despite being two leagues below them.

Anyone can win a Cup; Bradford nearly managed it last season, and Wigan did.

Isn't CMFG in Cyprus?

Adam Blackmore saying BBC Solent told Damiao and Banega are non-starters. Presser with MP this week.

That's that then. From memory, Blackmore is very rarely wrong on these things.

Can we have McManaman in exchange please.

sfc1971 speaks for me.

Turkish, can I be on the Ugly Inside pretty please? I have so much to learn from the gang.

Only if you let us know your Top 3 biscuits and crisps flavours.

Boris asked me if I was a "darkie" on my first visit there. UTS also has some repellent sh!t to say. Do they have any women over there? Seems a bit Lord of the Flies at times.

I think we have one fairly regular female poster on there, it's not a hotbed of female activity in fairness.

I really like the Ugly. It's essentially a load of blokes taking the mickey with occasional football references. Have never understood why Nick gets a hard time on here, he's a top bloke and to the best of my knowledge has never been derogatory about this board.

The fact that I've suggested him and deescribed him as a 'natural goalscorer who has scored plenty at every level' suggests I rate him, no?

 

He scored 20 odd goals is a terrible Blackburn team last season. I've no idea what he is on but if stories from those parts a true Blackburn are sliding into admin and in big troubles financially so will need to sell soon.

I agree that we should be looking at players like Rhodes. We could probably throw in a few players in part-exchange (Hammond, De Ridder etc) which would reduce the fee, albeit possibly not by that much in truth.

I've always found it very easy to find the games that are being shown on their website - http://www.en.aljazeerasport.tv/Schedule - Find it a reliable guide.

 

With regards to renewing, as I posted above all I've ever had to do is contact the original seller of my viewing card and request a renewal. I pay, they do it within 24 hours. Never had any problems. Never had to deal with Al Jaz at all.

 

The thing I am interested in the most is the price, and how PL football will affect that. Even if I am paying slightly over the odds for my viewing card on ebay, £11/12 a month for the shed loads of football that they offer is still a bargain IMO, just hope they don't hike it up too much now.

It is a steal when you consider that BT Sport are charging £12 a month if you subscribe through SKY.

Al Jazeera Sports have won the rights to show all 380 Premier League games from next season up until 2015/16 season. I currently own a viewing card for all 10 sports channels which I have used to watch Serie A for the last 3 years. You can purchase the card on Ebay here for £139.99 - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ultimate-12-Months-Al-jazeera-sport-card-Channels-1-10-Channels-NEW-/150741155480?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Viewing_Cards&hash=item2318df7e98.

 

Youl also need a receiver box and a 80cm diameter satellite dish and LNB, and have it aimed at 13.0E for Hot Bird Satellite 6-8.

 

Cost me £165 to set up, plus the cost of an engineer to correctly tune the dish. I purchased my gear from http://www.satellitesuperstore.com. Once installed that's it and after purchasing the Al Jazeera Sport viewing card you can renew it annually via the ebay seller who will do it remotely.

 

I'm not sure how live Premier League football will affect the price of the viewing card, but if it stays at the current price then it's a bargain, every Saints game live for £140 quid, or £11.66 a month. Compare that to what Sky charge per month, and you'll only get 8 or so live Saints games.

 

Al Jaz Sports also show Championship, La Liga, Serie A (virtually every game every weekend, great if you're into your Italian football like me), Ligue 1, Champions & Europa League & Internationals.

 

Perfect if you are exiled from Southampton and can't get to many games, or even if you're not and do home games only. If anybody would like any further information on the above just send me a PM.

Interesting. Did you do this last season. and is it legal?

I've taught English professionally for the past 8 years. You can't learn a language in 6 months.

Que????!!!!???

Seriously, I really cannot believe this. You are virtually belittling your profession.

Grown men should not wear football shirts unless playing. Doesn't bother me its about how we play and how we do. I'm sure some will moan for the sake of it and some will use it to attack Cortese.

Christ, this is an all-time first. I completely agree with Manji.

Yup. The Ugly Inside was superb. I also really liked On The March, though I suppose the notoriety it got for the Branfoot cover probably didn't help it.

I would be astonished if he left Celtic to sign for Cardiff.

It would be harsh on Cork; he was a pretty key player last season.

I'm guessing the African Nations Cup is the year after next rather than this season. If it was this season, I'd be less keen on Wanyama.