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How do I watch the matches on Friday and Sat in Portugal ?

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Hi Guys, has anyone any ideas how I can watch the matches on Friday and next Saturday ? I will be in Portugal, I am not a Sky customer but I was going to buy a couple of Day passes, however they tell me that these will not work in Portugal ! HELP !!! Any ideas, PLEASE!
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Davidsd wrote:Hi Guys, has anyone any ideas how I can watch the matches on Friday and next Saturday ? I will be in Portugal, I am not a Sky customer but I was going to buy a couple of Day passes, however they tell me that these will not work in Portugal ! HELP !!! Any ideas, PLEASE!
Watch the Friday match on BBC sport website, where in Portugal ?
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Not far from Lisbon. Does the BBC website have live video ? I have UKIPTV on my tablet, it gets BBC1NI but it doesn't get BBC2NI. The final is on Sky so normally that means that that BBC Radio Ulster broadcast it but again I'm not sure that the broadcast you get on AM is available on the BBC website ! D
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Davidsd wrote:Not far from Lisbon. Does the BBC website have live video ? I have UKIPTV on my tablet, it gets BBC1NI but it doesn't get BBC2NI. The final is on Sky so normally that means that that BBC Radio Ulster broadcast it but again I'm not sure that the broadcast you get on AM is available on the BBC website ! D
BBC NI will have the final should we be competing.

You could use an anominiser which will make BBC/Sky think you are in the UK.

Or you could just do like the other 90% of the population and watch it on an unlicensed stream.
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Mobdro is a handy app for android phones/tablets. Not available from the Playstore - you need to get it from their website. You'll definitely get the Sky Sports stream of the match on it.
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If you're on the Algarve, there's bound to be a British/Irish sports bar that will show it.
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big mervyn wrote:If you're on the Algarve, there's bound to be a British/Irish sports bar that will show it.
Lisbon is not on the Algarve though Merv :roll:
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As someone else mentioned, Mobdro will definitely give you the Sky stream (average, but passable).

Kodi is the ultimate programme for streams, better quality than Mobdro, and can be installed on Windows (laptop/tablet), Android (tabket/phone) and various other devices. Only problem is that you'd need to be reasonably tech-minded to be comfortable with installing the programme then the add ons. I can find a link to a guide for you if you reckon you can do it?

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Rooster wrote:
big mervyn wrote:If you're on the Algarve, there's bound to be a British/Irish sports bar that will show it.
Lisbon is not on the Algarve though Merv :roll:
:duh: didn't notice that.
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If you have a laptop with you, you can use https://www.tunnelbear.com/ to convince your laptop that it is actually in the UK and watch it on the BBCNI website assuming it's being used for the game.

Although I have the UK channels in Spain through my friend Pablo, that doesn't get me into iplayer so with tunnelbear when you want to catch up on something, it's a piece of urine with excellent quality.

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Thanks for the info Guys.
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A NowTV Sports pass allows you to watch all Sky Sports channels.

NowTV is blocked if it thinks you are outside the UK but you can get around this using a VPN or DNS service.

I use www.overplay.net

It is a subscription service but you can sign up for a month then cancel and I've found it more reliable than free services, which can be a bit flakey.
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