flogmad

I'd like to carry on watching English Premier League and Champions League football once we move to the US next month.

Come to think of it, European Tour and USPGA golf as well.

Can anyone recommend a good satellite or cable provider?

Thanks

elfman

Premier league games are shown on Fox Soccer Channel and ESPN2. In my experience you can get both by paying about $10 a month extra on top of a basic cable package (providers vary from area to area - where are you moving to?). Generally speaking the midday (UK time) Saturday prem kickoff is shown live on ESPN2, then one of the 3pm kickoffs and the 5pm kickoff are both shown live on FSC. Usually only the 4pm Sunday game is shown on FSC, but today they showed the earlier kickoff as well, which gave us a welcome opportunity to laugh at Chelsea conceding a 92nd minute equaliser in real time.

FSC also shows a sprinkling of midweek games live, and a full hour of highlights including all the weekend's goals on Sunday evenings.

Duncan Roberts

DirecTV carries the most, if you are willing to stump up the cash. As said, Fox Soccer Channel shows a lot, that is available with any directv package as a sports pack add on ($12.99 a month) along with GolTV that has other football, Fox soccer plus is an extra $14.99 a month I think, ESPN channels are included in most packages and so are the UEFA channels which are exclusove to DirecTV and show pretty much every game in the Europa league.

If you want sports in general pretty much everything can be had on DirecTV if you have enough money.

flogmad

We'll be living just outside Tampa, FL. Sounds like there's more live TV coverage in the US than in the UK. They don't show any 3pm Saturday matches in the UK which dates back to the age when the football league thought it would discourage people going to the grounds to watch the games. And as an Arsenal fan it's been an enjoyable few weeks seeing Chelsea's recent demise.

Thanks for the fast response.

flogmad

Thanks. At least I'll have the important stuff sorted out pretty easily. Now I can turn my attention to less important things like SSNs and driving licenses

BHAFC14

Slightly off topic – looks like Beckham could be on his way back to Premiership football if the deal between Spurs and LA Galaxy goes ahead. I’m sure Landon Donovan will be really upset!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...er-United.html

penguinsix

We have a WIKI article on how to watch UK and European sports in the USA.

http://britishexpats.com/wiki/English_Sports_in_America

lansbury

It's a bit out of date. Talks about Sentanta and doesn't mention Fox Soccer Plus which replaced it.

N1cky

It gets a bit much to be honest, we had Fox Soccer Plus in the last house with Time Warner but can't get it here with AT&T, still on New Years Day I had 4 games to watch, would have had 7 if we still had Plus, if you're not careful its all you do.

Bob

could always update it, the plus of a wiki

BritishGuy36

If you want to max out your EPL coverage, you need DirecTV.

Some cable operators carry FSC, but a lot do not (including mine ). On DirecTV, you can get FSC and FSC+ (which took over the schedule that Setanta used to have).

Between FSC, FSC+ and ESPN2 you can get about 80% of all EPL games of most EPL teams, especially if you are a supporter of one of the top teams.

The great thing about watching from outside the UK is that they are allowed to show Saturday 3pm GMT games too, nice to have a good brekky and footy on Saturday mornings here. Perfect time for those of us in EST....10am kick off, don't even have to get up too early.

lansbury

I thought about it, but I mucked everything up when I wrote an article once so I thought I'd play on the safe side.

lansbury

Good thing about FSC+ it carries some of the Championship league games for those of us who support one of those teams. COYH

Bob

could always copy and paste it here and say where it needs to go and someone could update it for you

Brucky

I really hope that comcast will add Fox Soccer+ to their line up soon