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When it's free porn.

Ok so I should say that when I say football I mean English football (soccer) not what our American friends call football. This all on Superbowl weekend as well. My prediction for that is that a team with the word "NEW" in their name will win.

Anyway, back to the story. Recently I came across this bit of software that allows you to watch TV channels from abroad, interesting but not that spectacular until you realise that it means you can watch live soccer over the net that is not being broadcast on local TV, more importantly games that I actually want to watch.

I mentioned this software to a friend at work, having watched the Liverpool game the previous weekend in perfect Chinese commentary, and this saturday afternoon I sat down to watch the Spurs Vs Man Ure game at 3 p.m. (it was actually a stream of the Setanta sports US broadcast). It was all fine until half-time. I'd got up to make a cup of tea but had left the PC on during the ads, when in the kitchen I heard something that didn't exactly sound like an ad or football, I came back into the room (pardon the pun) to see that it had somehow switched to streaming the playboy channel (not sure who'd be streaming that at 4pm UK time/11am EST). What made it worse was at the same time, my work colleague had just hooked up and was about to sit his 9 year old son in front of the same stream. Not surprisingly my phone went to confirm that what he was seeing was what I was seeing, to which the answer was yes. Fortunately a quick refresh and we both got the football back and were able to watch Man Ure fluke a last minute equaliser.

I've no idea if this is legal or not, but I guess if the biggest risk in watching live streaming football is the occasional blast of porn, it's a risk I'm prepared to take.