Where does the 'live' live?

I can't legally watch my beloved Arsenal play football at 3pm on a Saturday.

(Luckily, today they're on the late kick off)

There's a rule that bans any British TV station from showing those matches. It's a way of keeping up physical ticket sales apparently.
Because if it was on TV then no one would ever go see it live. Naturally.

The view on TV is better anyway.

But when I really want to, I can bypass this rule. I live in Plymouth so I can't go see the Arsenal play in North London every week anyway. Even if I could get a ticket I probably wouldn't be able to afford it.

So I stream the match.
I use the FirstRow website to find an obscure broadcast of the game from another country. It's commonly a FOX stream from the US, or even a stream from Mexico or European countries like the Netherlands and Spain. I prefer FOX though because it's in a language I can understand.

The problem I have is that the quality of the stream is often quite rubbish. It's either so juttery or fuzzy that sometimes I can't make out Oxlade-Chamberlain from Keiran Gibbs.

My work-around for this is to use a 'live commentary', in particular the Arseblog commentary. It provides live, textual information in short bitesized chunks. Very similar to a twitter feed.

Using both of these methods, I feel as though I am as close to the game as I can be.
Through my video, I get a constant roar of the crowd and a rough indication of where the game is being played.
With the commentary, I get the little details and analyses, (which are most of the time are more informed that I ever could be).

I think, at least...

The relationship between these two different representations gives me a better view than if I had bought a ticket.
Albeit with a short time lag.

I think, at least...

In other news that is completely not associated in any other way at all, I am utterly engrossed in this: http://www.forcedentertainment.com/quizoola24-stream/