US based City fans

[xthelegendx]

dunno how anyone from a country so far away can support this shower of shite :) fair play

i live in the city centre but work away quite a lot so if often results in me running around various Citys trying to find a sports bar!

Setanta is Direct-TV channel 621.
FSC (Fox Soccer Channel) is Direct-TV channel 619.

You need a Direct-TV satelite dish (or DISH Network I suppose), unless your local cable provider offers Setanta and Fox. You can subscribe to Setanta and Fox ONLY SO LONG as you buy Direct-TV's CHOICE PLUS package, i.e. one of their upper-end options. Setanta is available as a stand-alone add-on, FSC comes as part of a larger sports package you can add. Setanta is $12.99 a month (I think: I haven't looked at the bill for some time), the sports package that includes FSC is $14.99 per month. If you are living in an apartment there is 0.0% chance they're going to let you put up a dish. Additionally, Direct is not going to take your business if you tell them you want them to give you a dish and all that just for a few months before you go back to Blighty, I think they want a minimum one year contract, and to secure that they'll want your credit card...

It's possible your local cable provider offers Setanta or FSC, but, like Direct-TV (or Dish Network), you have to buy more than their base package before they'll let you add them, and you still have to buy a minimum one-years contract and all that.

If I were you I'd invest in a quality laptop and high-speed internet connection and just watch out for links on here. If you are only going to be here 8 weeks it's not worth the throw-away cost or trouble imo.

A lot depends on which time zone you're going to be in.

Although FSC (Fox Soccer Channel) will have matches on their EST stations, the same are not always shown on CST or PST ones - especially when it comes to earlier kick-offs. I've written to complain about this, as they obviously don't appreciate that 'soccer' fans will watch their teams play at any time of the day or night as long as it's live. It really pissess me off that if I'm in Atlanta I can see our earlier matches, but if I'm in Chicago then I'm screwed because of CST.

As for Setanta, I'm not sure whether you're looking for it on a residential or a commercial television set (like in a pub) and I don't know how available Setanta is to private television sets in the USA. I know you can get an online subscription from them, but I have not personally used this in ages. The Setanta online pub locator database is crap, and needs updating as it's almost always full of errors.

The feeds on here (if you've got computer access) and also on FSI Streaming are always fairly decent, so I'd make contingency plans along these lines if you do not have a local Setanta pub, or a residential cable/dish service in the right time zone for FSC (if you have Setanta on it you're in better shape, but may have to pay $25 for a PPV programme on some networks).

Where i'm staying has DirecTV and even though it travels around i think its registered in the east as it always had the TV planner thing set up in EST so i'm hoping i'm going to be all set !

I'm sure somebody will post links to the Pompey match this weekend.

In Bluemoon we trust! cheers for your help everyone

 

[mick hunt]

Why not watch them on the internet there games are on more or less every week.

 

[nelsons willie]

dunno how anyone from a country so far away can support this shower of shite :) fair play

i started following american football when it was fisrt shown on channel 4 back in the 80's..thought id pick a team to follow..somehow i manged to pick the gridiron equivalent of MCFC..cleveland browns ffs. .well at least the baseball team do mangage to get to later stages every now and again

 

[blueyorkie]

Question for US based Blues. I travel over to the States a couple of times a year. Its not worth me gettting a monthly broadband contract so last time I finished up watching games on my laptop in coffee shops where there were wireless hot spots. I wondered if you knew of any Broadband providers who sell "pay as you go" dongles (think they are called Air Cards over there) Thanks in advance

 

[jopapgh]

Think the Fox Soccer Channel page has links to local footie bars. I will be watching live at Piper's Pub in Pittsburgh, with the one other MCFC fan.

Here what will be showing there live:

Saturday February 14
FA Cup 5th Round
7:30am
Swansea City v Fulham
9:45am
West Ham v Middlesbrough
10am
Sheffield Utd v Hull City
Portsmouth v Manchester City(Premier League)
12:15pm
Watford v Chelsea