This weekend's soccer on TV
Admit it. As much as you love the English Premier League, you've found yourself yearning for some variety in your European soccer viewing during this winter break for most leagues.
Well, La Liga is back and just in time. Real Madrid and Barcelona will be back in action and, more importantly, on TV for you to watch. The Spanish league heads the menu this weekend, with the EPL taking a break for the FA Cup, which will also be featured this weekend.
This weekend's marquee match-up features Villarreal traveling to Barcelona to face Espanyol on GolTV on Saturday.
Here is the rest of this weekend's Soccer TV schedule.
SATURDAY
10am- FSC- Portsmouth at Ipswich Town (FA Cup).
2pm- GolTV- Barcelona at Mallorca.
4pm- GolTV- Villarreal at Espanyol.
SUNDAY
9am- FSC- Arsenal at Burnley (FA Cup).
11am- GolTV- Atletico Madrid at Deportivo La Coruna.
1pm- GolTV- Real Zaragoza at Real Madrid.
1pm- FSC- Newcastle United at Stoke City (FA Cup).
3pm- GolTV- Real Betis at Sevilla.
Ives Galarcep is an American soccer columnist for ESPNsoccernet.com and creator of SoccerByIves.net.
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Hey Ives, great work on the site. I'm a long time reader and enjoy your insights into the beautiful game.
Anyway, my request is that you also list games that are viewable via the internet. Due to high satellite TV costs (especially Setanta) I've decided to try to catch my games on the web and find I have fairly good access to top notch matches.
Thanks,
Neal
Posted by: Neal | January 04, 2008 at 11:37 AM
to piggy-back on Neal's comment, which websites are carrying games?
Posted by: Joe | January 04, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Setanta is ridiculous. The only way I'd pay is if they had exclusive rights to EPL, Serie A, and La Liga. I can watch enough games on other channels that I don't feel the need to pay $10/month for 1 channel. If there is a game I really want to see, I'll go to a soccer pub.
Posted by: CACuzcatlan | January 04, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Y'all with GolTV have a great weekend - it looks brutally bad for us who are stuck with FSC. Might have to check out the internet viewing options.
Has anyone put together a definitive "So you want to watch soccer on the internet" guide/links?
Posted by: eric | January 04, 2008 at 02:39 PM
Setanta have yet again shockingly underestimated the huge US market for quality football and overlooked the Swindon vs Barnet match.
Soccer on the internet - isn't Setanta broadband the only place that does it legally? (apart from ESPN for UEFA games).
Posted by: Hudsonland | January 04, 2008 at 03:19 PM
Y'all are so spoiled. Its only 10 bucks for all those extra games? Geez...
Posted by: Matt in Japan | January 04, 2008 at 03:27 PM
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Newcastle lose to Stoke. They aren't looking good at all right now.
Posted by: Adam Nicholls | January 04, 2008 at 03:28 PM
If Newcastle doesn't beat Stoke, Big Sam's gonna start hating his life
Posted by: Scott A | January 04, 2008 at 04:46 PM
I'm sure he's hating it already.
Posted by: natsteel | January 04, 2008 at 08:06 PM
to those interested in watching games online you can get a pretty good schedule at this site:
http://myp2p.eu/competition.php?competitionid=&part=sports&discipline=football
hope this helps people
Posted by: wendel | January 05, 2008 at 09:37 AM