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Top tip of the week:

Stateside Urz fans.Point your webcam at the telly on match days and afford humble UK exiles the chance to see their beloved team live every time

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Sounds about right.

A little bit of housekeeping here that will interest a select few who may want to skip the rest; just a reminder to all others that the home match with West Ham on Saturday is scheduled to screen LIVE in the States on Setanta Xtra (DirecTV channel 670) from 10:00 AM Eastern and to repeat same-day on the regular Setanta US channel from 2:30 PM and 7:45 PM, and it is scheduled to repeat once more on Setanta from 6:45 AM on Sunday as a lead-up to the live screening of Arsenal-Pompey (all times Eastern). Setanta's listings are spotty these days, just for everyone's knowledge. Moving on...

Thanks for the info on Setanta B'band Guillermo. May have to break down and do it. A hundred and forty-four bucks a year, hmm.

I wish i lived in the USA, seems you can watch every game live on TV.

You can come and live in Australia as well if you like. We now have "Live and Interactive", basically EVERY Saturday game is live. This includes all the other Live games televised into the U.K (Sunday's and Monday). You get to choose your own preference out of the 5 live games at 3pm Saturday! And yes, I've watched every single Reading game this season, and Saturday's Bolton trip was very ordinary at best!

For the information of the occasional traveler --"How do I see the game whilst in Oz" threads over in Meeting Up are by no means unheard of-- is there any kind of boilerplate info that you might be able to pass along?

I'm speaking of those who won't necessarily be lodged in a residence, and in particular one that's all subscribed up to the essential channels --you know, folks staying in hotels with limited TV options looking for pubs.

Just general rules of thumb is what I'm going for here, things such as links to websites with reliable, channel-specific TV listings of live and delayed screenings, online pub finders, that sort of thing.

Anything you'd like to chuck up here or in a PM for my attention would be handy, and of course I'd understand if you really didn't want to arse around with this. And one could always keep an eye on the Meeting Up forum for notice of those headed down and who are pleading for TV information.

Hey Chicago,I will be in your fine city in september then on to Iowa,will I be able to see Englands game on the Telly over there?

Made a phone call to my local yesterday and confirmed the $20 door charge for the England-Israel match on Saturday 8th September at noon Eastern time and 11:00 AM in Chicago.

As to the Russia match set for 3:00 PM Eastern/2:00 Chicago time on Wednesday the 12th, they "haven't decided" yet whether or not to have a door charge on the day but indicate that they "probably will." At the rate of exchange, ten quid for each game doesn't sound too bad I guess.

I surmise, given that my local remains undecided for the Wednesday, that decisions on a door charge are at each individual venue's discretion; used to be that an in-the-flesh Setanta rep would be on-site shake you down for a twenty at the door. So it would seem to follow that whether or how much one would have to pay is up to each individual venue these days (I recognize that it's probably not a huge deal to you, but I wouldn't want to be responsible for any unwelcome "surprises" resulting from my failure to inform as fully as possible).

General information with regard to door charges is incomplete as of now --other pubs here haven't posted their live TV schedules that far out yet, but I've got an eye on it. Don't really know anything about Iowa but can do a lookup if need be.

So anyway, if you'd like to pursue this, I could use some information from you with regard to where you'll be on the dates in question; names of cities/towns will suffice, and you could PM it to me if you don't want everyone else knowing.

So that'll do 'er. If I can be of additional use on this, don't hesitate to let me know --and safe travels.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Okay kids, full schedule of Euro 2008 qualifying matches to be televised in the States appears in the first post in this thread.

I believe that it's pretty much up to individual venues as to whether or not to charge at the door and how much. May it be enough to say that if a place is charging, it's most likely twenty bucks --and that'd be for absolutely anything involving England or RoI, rest assured.

There's plenty of other stuff on for free, and both of England's upcoming qualifiers will screen on a few days' delay on FSC; Ireland's will screen several times on delay on Setanta US.

As for RFC, the Sunderland match on the 15th at 10:00 AM Eastern screens live on Setanta US. The Wigan match that follows will not screen in the States, but highlights shows abound and will be listed in full as the date approaches.

Sky have picked up the Carling Cup Third Round match with Liverpool at home for live screening in the UK on Tuesday the 24th. No word yet about a screening in the States (it'd go from 2:45 PM Eastern), but Setanta usually show a match live each round --so stay tuned for an upate within the next week.

For October, FSC have picked up the month's latter two games for same-day delayed screening. Don't know yet about Derby at home on the 7th.

To see it all in day-planner format, slide on over to the first post in this thread and have a butcher's, you all.

[fallen angel]

Hi Royal Chicago,I flew into Chicago yesterday(Bloody Hot)and I am now staying in Ames ,Iowa.I hope to see the game on saturday here or in Des Moines.Do you know,it will be 10 am here I think but you might know ,if its going to be shown anywhere in the area or it might be worth downloading Sop Cam to watch it.Cheers

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Hi Royal Chicago,I flew into Chicago yesterday(Bloody Hot)and I am now staying in Ames ,Iowa.I hope to see the game on saturday here or in Des Moines.Do you know,it will be 10 am here I think but you might know ,if its going to be shown anywhere in the area or it might be worth downloading Sop Cam to watch it.Cheers

Saturday's kickoff is at 11:00 AM local time. It's a college gridiron Saturday, so sports bars should be opening up by then.

Try The Royal Mile, located at 210 4th Street in Des Moines, at 515.280.3771 (you'll probably have to dial "1" first). The email contact for the place is Kentmiddendorf[at]yahoo.com

Also there's supposed to be a place called Amici's at 7th & Mulberry in Des Moines, but I can't get a phone number --so ask the folks at The Royal Mile if they know anything about it.

Amici's, if it exists, may be the better bet --seems to be a real football pub, whereas the other is just an "English-style pub"

Failing all of that, it'll screen on FSC on Tuesday nite from 10:00 PM Central time. Best of luck with this --and yeah, it's hotter'n hell around here for this time of year.

[fallen angel]

Hi Royal Chicago,I flew into Chicago yesterday(Bloody Hot)and I am now staying in Ames ,Iowa.I hope to see the game on saturday here or in Des Moines.Do you know,it will be 10 am here I think but you might know ,if its going to be shown anywhere in the area or it might be worth downloading Sop Cam to watch it.Cheers

Saturday's kickoff is at 11:00 AM local time. It's a college gridiron Saturday, so sports bars should be opening up by then.

Try The Royal Mile, located at 210 4th Street in Des Moines, at 515.280.3771 (you'll probably have to dial "1" first). The email contact for the place is Kentmiddendorf[at]yahoo.com

Also there's supposed to be a place called Amici's at 7th & Mulberry in Des Moines, but I can't get a phone number --so ask the folks at The Royal Mile if they know anything about it.

Amici's, if it exists, may be the better bet --seems to be a real football pub, whereas the other is just an "English-style pub"

Failing all of that, it'll screen on FSC on Tuesday nite from 10:00 PM Central time. Best of luck with this --and yeah, it's hotter'n hell around here for this time of year.

Cheers ,sussed out the Royal Mile English pub in a local Ames paper,was planning to visit it for half a bitter ,so even more reason to go there.Yeah,getting off that plane hitting that heat half killed me.Today its just muggy here in Ames

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Righto, Sunderland (A) on Saturday screens LIVE here from 10:00 AM Eastern on Setanta US, with repeat screenings on Setanta currently scheduled for Saturday evening at 8:00, overnite Saturday/Sunday from 1:45 AM Eastern (10:45 PM Saturday West Coast) and from 8:30 AM Eastern on Tuesday the 18th.

The Wigan match on the following Saturday will not screen here, but there will be a few opportunities to see extended match highlights. The home Carling Cup tie with Liverpool on Tuesday the 25th was snapped up by Sky for live screening over across, so it's possible that Setanta will pick up a feed here; we should know within a couple of days.

For a full listing in day-planner format of all that's known as of now, including highlights shows and repeat and delayed screenings of Wednesday's Euro qualifiers, please see the first post to this thread.

[fallen angel]

Righto, Sunderland (A) on Saturday screens LIVE here from 10:00 AM Eastern on Setanta US, with repeat screenings on Setanta currently scheduled for Saturday evening at 8:00, overnite Saturday/Sunday from 1:45 AM Eastern (10:45 PM Saturday West Coast) and from 8:30 AM Eastern on Tuesday the 18th.

The Wigan match on the following Saturday will not screen here, but there will be a few opportunities to see extended match highlights. The home Carling Cup tie with Liverpool on Tuesday the 25th was snapped up by Sky for live screening over across, so it's possible that Setanta will pick up a feed here; we should know within a couple of days.

For a full listing in day-planner format of all that's known as of now, including highlights shows and repeat and delayed screenings of Wednesday's Euro qualifiers, please see the first post to this thread.\

How do I tune in to setanta CR,is it on normal telly?I downloaded Sop Cast and saw the England/India cricket match game on our freinds PC here but now lost it.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

How do I tune in to setanta CR,is it on normal telly?I downloaded Sop Cast and saw the England/India cricket match game on our freinds PC here but now lost it.

Satellite channel --any football/expat pub worthy of being called such would have it and be open for business at 9:00 Central time on Saddy morning.

Put another way, it's highly doubtful you could just flip on your TV in a hotel room and have it appear, but it is standard on some residential satellite packages (DirecTV and Dish Network foremost among them). Also live on Setanta broadband, but you'd have to be subscribed.

Don't really know anything about SopCast, how to make it work, etc. You still in Iowa?

[fallen angel]

How do I tune in to setanta CR,is it on normal telly?I downloaded Sop Cast and saw the England/India cricket match game on our freinds PC here but now lost it.

Satellite channel --any football/expat pub worthy of being called such would have it and be open for business at 9:00 Central time on Saddy morning.

Put another way, it's highly doubtful you could just flip on your TV in a hotel room and have it appear, but it is standard on some residential satellite packages (DirecTV and Dish Network foremost among them). Also live on Setanta broadband, but you'd have to be subscribed.

Don't really know anything about SopCast, how to make it work, etc. You still in Iowa?

Yes,we fly to Chicago a week friday from Des Moines and then on to Heathrow.Sop Cast is a Korean tv site which shows Premiership games and all other sports.Just put it in your search engine and download for free.You have a choice of several sports channels and ESPN has got the Sky sports live feed.The other channels are in Koreon.By the way,was in the royal mile pub in Des Moines last night and the sale a terrific amount of English beers,some Ive never even heard of.But the London Underground in Ames ,although fewer selection is a better pub.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Iowa visitors take note --cheers for that, FA.

Right: the Wigan match will not screen here. Two shots at extended highights will be on Sunday from 1:00 Eastern on FSC's Super Sunday+ highlights and commentary show (the whole thing runs for 90 minutes) and the weekly Premier League Review Show, which screens first-time from 11:30 PM Eastern on Sunday and may repeat once or twice early next week.

Setanta US have added a same-day delayed screening of next Tuesday's Carling Third Round match at home to Liverpool; it is scheduled for 6:00 PM on Tuesday, and there are repeat screenings scheduled for Wednesday at 8:30 AM and on Friday from 6:00 AM.

For a look farther ahead and other listings of note, please as always see the first post to this thread.

[seahawk10]

Thanks as always RCFC. Bummer with no Wigan showing.

[hiro]

Everything you do, I appriciate. Thanks millions, RoyalChicagoFC and seahawk10.

Oh, I should stay one more day to catch League Cup in the states, but I can't

[RoyalChicagoFC]

It's a genuine pleasure hiro.

I trust that you're all set and wish for you safe travels and a magnificent visit. Please don't hesitate to be in touch for any reason, and feel free to let us know how it all went.

[Royal Yank]

Well it appears that the game is on live Setanta Extra - DirecTV, channel 670.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

It is, it is --because Blackburn-Pompey got moved to tomorrow due to the former's participation in the UEFA Cup on Thursday.

I suppose that I might have guessed as much --but then, I don't work for Setanta and don't get paid to keep track of such things, much less report them to customers (actual and potential) in a timely manner.

So once again, I've been embarrassed by Setanta's tardiness in getting its own word out --and I am prepared to return the favor with a severe scolding via email that I shall be posting here in full once I finish composing and sending it.

Until then, the Wigan match shall continue to screen live on Setanta Xtra after the break and will repeat in full same-day on Setanta US from 9:45 PM Eastern tonite, Saturday.

[seahawk10]

Hiro and I watched it live on Setanta Broadband in a Starbucks in LOLos Angeles. Scared a few customers with some of our shouts and loud repsones when things did and did not go our way. It made both of our Saturdays! (Especially important as Hiro was on vacation from Tokyo). Very happy that the game was on Setanta.

[The whole year inn]

Hiro and I watched it live on Setanta Broadband in a Starbucks in LOLos Angeles. Scared a few customers with some of our shouts and loud repsones when things did and did not go our way. It made both of our Saturdays! (Especially important as Hiro was on vacation from Tokyo). Very happy that the game was on Setanta.

Quality

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Right kids, just a reminder that Setanta US will have Tuesday's League Cup Third Round match with Liverpool on a same-day delayed basis from 6:00 PM Eastern.

Also, FSC have pushed back the scheduled first-time, same-day delayed screening of Saturday's match away to Pompey; it'll go from 2:00 AM Sunday morning Eastern time (11:00 PM Saturday on the West Coast) and, while there may be an additional screening or two at more reasonable hours during the following week, FSC have been slow in getting next week's schedule posted.

Shouldn't be long, and I'll update. As ever, the first post to this thread has the very latest.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Nuttin' doin' for this Sunday's home match with Derby, folks. Kickoff is at the odd hour of 9:00 AM Eastern, and we'll have to make do with highlights in the following formats:

--From 6:00 PM Eastern on Sunday, FSC's Super Sunday+ highlights and commentary show

--From 8:30 PM Eastern on Sunday, the weekly Premier League Review Show screens first-time, and it is scheduled to repeat on Monday from 4:00 AM and 6:00 PM

International break after that, with England and the RoI's matches screening live on a PPV/pay-at-the-pub basis as usual; full listings in e-zee-2-read day-planner format are in the first post to this thread

RFC's next three matches out of the break screen on a same-day delayed basis on FSC; full details on Page 1 of this thread. After that, Arsenal on a Monday afternoon, live on Setanta on 12th November

Feel free to bring any questions to my attention, and, as always, the first post to this thread has the very latest. Now let's get going, Royals --the whole world truly is watching