No Beckham, no problem? We'll find out Wednesday when England meet Slovakia in another Euro 2004 qualifier at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium. England go top of the group table with a win.
Anyone know of any online radio coverage for this one. I assume BBC's site is blocked like last time, any other options?
Can't help with the radio, sorry. I've got a bit of a nasty feeling about this game - I hope it's not another Macedonia.
According to 'socceraudio.com' English national team games are not broadcast over the Internet. FA Cup, etc., are, though.
Great start for the British teams: Macedonia beating Turkey - England can have a huge advantage in the goup and wold not need a result in Turkey. Iceland beating Lithuania - Scotland will remain second in their group. Azerbijian beat Serbia and Mont. - Great result for Wales.
The BBC Football site is saying (at this point) that it IS available over the net: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/2981828.stm
Its advertised as Live Audio on the BBC's Football homepage. Whether they block it out at the last second reamins to be seen. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/default.stm
I'm listening to live BBC audio of the pre-game right now at this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/default.stm I also had no problem listening to BBC audio coverage of the friendly vs. Serbia/Montenegro.
From what I gather, it's an FA ruling but although I wouldn't expect friendlies to count, other competitive games have been blocked. No idea of the reason for this exception. I know FIFA hasn't allowed Internet broadcast rights for either of the last two World Cups.
BBC commentator: "This is the first time in my life that I've been warm watching football in this city." Sukur has scored a third for Turkey.