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For those considering an expensive special purpose contract with a service provider to watch sports, here's a much cheaper option.

I have a subscription for PureVPN (link). They offer a 5 year contract for 85$, about 1.40 per month. There are many other VPN (Virtual Private Network) providers, but I found PureVPN to be fast, and they have world wide servers. They also offer shorter contracts, a bit more expensive, but still cheap compared to alternatives.
What it is, is a way to make websites think that you are in the country where that website is.
Television channels streamed on the web often limit live sport event streams to their own country, because of rights issues. So if you try watching a stream from your home country in the Philippines you often get the "this video cannot be played" warning.
Once you have a VPN subscription, no more of that. You can set the VPN service to connect to their server in your country of choice and voila, no more "this video cannot be played".

I use it to watch football, Tour de France and other cycling events, speedskating, tennis, and more. I just use google to find out which tv station in which country streams an event I would like to watch and connect the VPN accordingly.

 

I have no clue of VPN and stuff but it looks to me that you can get a lot of headache.

That's why I prefer to watch the games at a nice bar enjoying some cold ones and having nice food.

Not to forget the company of other supporters what makes it always funny.

Breaktime Ocean is a good spot.
Located at Northpoint they are streaming all games. Beer is cold, food is nice, guests and staff are friendly.

For me the best option.

 

Very happy with the World Cup coverage on Cignal pay per view...I like the way they replay the matches through the day. I understand Skycable has it too.

 

I watched ENG v USA (to borrow the brilliant headline from the SUN newspaper in 1995: YANKS 0 PLANKS 0) on ITV using my NORD VPN and it was fine.

 

Update !!!

Just contacted Breaktime Ocean.

All matches of today will be streamed.
Also the German match at 3 a.m.

Looking forward with pleasure to enjoy some cold beers in a great atmosphere. Hope the German team will make it.

 

I use this for a long time European leagues, Champ. leauge, World Cup other sport events.....no VPN needed, no subscription
https://jokerlivestream.vip/football-live-stream

 

I had that problem (especially re BBC's iPlayer) with ExpressVPN but NEVER (as in 'not once') with NordVPN, which is also much cheaper. Been using it for almost 3 years now. It also has obfuscated servers, split tunnelling plus a variety of other related products.

 

Mike, when that happens, or if there's no Dutch station that has it, I simply find a different tv station that streams the event online, for instance, I occasionally watch Formula One on RTL (Luxemburg) or an Austrian TV channel. Who cares if the commentary is in a language you don't understand (but I happen to understand German). For cycling events I often end up with Belgian TV, especially Vuelta and Giro d'Italia.

 

I found that some TV channels, particularly UK BBC, actually know when you are using a VPN and block it (BBC UK requires some licence payment). May be different with the subscription though.