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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How to watch Northampton vs Bordeaux: Live stream 2025 Champions Cup Final for FREE, team news
If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. Pricing and availability subject to change. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Photo byToday's Champions Cup final live stream serves up the biggest fixture in club rugby, featuring an all-star cast of the game's top talents, most notably Louis Bielle-Biarrey and Tommy Freeman. Below we have all the information on how to watch Northampton vs Bordeaux from anywhere. Advertisement Both teams booked their places in the Principality Stadium showpiece in statement fashion, Freeman scoring a first-half hat-trick to set up Northampton's colossal 37-34 upset of Leinster, as Bordeaux crushed defending champions Toulouse in a 35-18 feeding frenzy. This is a game of firsts, especially for Bordeaux, who had never previously reached the Champions Cup final. Incredibly, considering they're two of Europe's leading club sides, this is also the first ever meeting between Northampton and Bordeaux. With Maxime Lucu, Matthieu Jalibert and the aforementioned Bielle-Biarrey, the Begles' strength in depth is unmatched, however, against Leinster the Saints showed that they don't need the lion's share of possession or territory to rack up big numbers. Northampton skipper George Furbank will start despite complications arising from the broken arm he suffered last year, as will Bordeaux winger Damian Penaud, who's been nursing an ankle injury. Advertisement Here's where to watch the 2025 Champions Cup final live streams online from anywhere, potentially for FREE. Northampton vs Bordeaux team news Northampton team: 15 Furbank, 14 Freeman, 13 Dingwall (c), 12 Hutchinson, 11 Ramm, 10 Smith, 9 Mitchell, 8 Pollock, 7 Kemeny, 6 Coles, 5, Lockett, 4 Mayanavanua, 3 Davison, 2 Langdon, 1 Iyogun Bordeaux team: 15 Buros, 14 Penaud, 13 Depoortere, 12 Moefana, 11 Bielle-Biarrey, 10 Jalibert, 9 Lucu (c), 8 Samu, 7 Petti, 6 Diaby, 5 Cazeaux, 4 Coleman, 3 Falatea, 2 Lamothe, 1 Poirot Watch the Champions Cup final for FREE The 2025 Champions Cup final is being shown on free-to-air RTE2 and RTE Player in Ireland, and on France 2 and France TV in France. Advertisement Meanwhile residents of the UK will have a chance to watch it through the Welsh language S4C channel. This is available via BBC iPlayer as well, so you can keep up with all the action. What if you're abroad? Rugby fans from the UK, Ireland and France can use NordVPN to watch their usual streaming service from anywhere. How to watch any Champions Cup final stream using a VPN This is handy piece of software that can make your device appear as if it's back in your home country, so you can unlock your usual service. The best VPN right now? We recommend NordVPN – it does everything and comes with a 70% discount. NordVPN – Save 70% and try risk-free Advertisement There's a good reason you've heard of NordVPN. We specialize in testing and reviewing VPN services and NordVPN is the one we rate as the best VPN. It's outstanding at unblocking streaming services, it's fast and it has top-level security features too. With over 7,000 servers, across 110+ countries, and at a great price too, it's easy to recommend. Get 70% off with this NordVPN dealView Deal How to watch Champions Cup final live streams in the US US flag banner The Champions Cup final live stream is on FloRugby in the USA. Plans start from $29.99 a month, or you can opt for the $150 annual subscription. Advertisement On vacation outside the US? Use a VPN to watch FloRugby from abroad while you're away from home. How to watch Champions Cup final live streams in the UK Credit: Future As alluded to earlier, in the UK, the Champions Cup final is being shown for FREE on the S4C channel. This is available via BBC iPlayer and english commentary will be available on all platforms excluding iPlayer. If you already have a subscription with Premier Sports, they will also be broadcasting Northampton vs Bordeaux to UK residents. A subscription costs £15.99 per month, but if you're willing to commit to a year you'll pay £131.88, which works out at £10.99 each month. The fixture will be on Premier Sports 1. Advertisement Premier Sports also holds the rights to the Challenge Cup, Top 14 and United Rugby Championship, La Liga and Coppa Italia. Traveling away from the UK right now? Use a VPN to catch the action for free on Premier Sports from abroad while you're away from home. How to watch Champions Cup final live streams in Australia Australia flag banner Fans based in Australia can watch Champions Cup final live streams on EPCR TV. A weekend pass costs €14.99, and will let you watch Friday's Challenge Cup final too. If you're outside Oz at the moment you can use a VPN to watch EPCR TV from abroad. How to watch Champions Cup final live streams in Canada Credit: Other FloRugby is showing the Champions Cup final in Canada. Advertisement A subscription will set you back CA$213 for the year or CA$39.99 each month. Traveling outside of the Great White North for the big game? Make sure to use a VPN so you don't miss any of the action. Official Champions Cup final broadcasters by region New Zealand Sky Sport 1 is showing the Champions Cup final in New Zealand. You can access Sky Sport through satellite TV, or get a live stream with the Sky Sport Now subscription service starting at $54.99 per month. South Africa The Champions Cup final is being shown on SuperSport in South Africa. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, & Netherlands Viaplay has the rights to the Champions Cup final in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Netherlands. Advertisement Rest of the world The Champions Cup final is being shown on EPCR TV in every country where the competition hasn't been picked up by a broadcaster. Champions Cup Final FAQ Can I watch the Champions Cup final for free? Yes! Viewers in Ireland and France can watch the 2025 Champions Cup final for free, courtesy of free-to-air RTE Player and France TV respectively. Fans away from home can use a VPN to watch the free coverage from abroad. What time is the Champions Cup final? The Champions Cup final kicks off at 9.45am ET / 2.45pm BST on Saturday, May 24. Can I watch the Champions Cup final on my mobile? Of course, most broadcasters have streaming services that you can access through mobile apps or via your phone's browser. Advertisement You can also stay up-to-date with all things Champions Cup on the official Champions Cup social media channels on YouTube (@InvestecChampionsCup) and Instagram (@EuropeanRugbyChampionsCup). We test and review VPN services in the context of legal recreational uses. For example:1. Accessing a service from another country (subject to the terms and conditions of that service).2. Protecting your online security and strengthening your online privacy when do not support or condone the illegal or malicious use of VPN services. Consuming pirated content that is paid-for is neither endorsed nor approved by Future Publishing.
Wales Online
17 hours ago
- Sport
- Wales Online
'Pretty angry' Henry Pollock breaks silence on Cardiff incident that led to ban
'Pretty angry' Henry Pollock breaks silence on Cardiff incident that led to ban The England international was at the centre of a clash at the end of the Champions Cup final Henry Pollock explained that there was an incident that instigated his altercation with Bordeaux players. (Image: TNT SPORTS ) Henry Pollock has broken his silence on the violence that kicked off after the Champions Cup final in Cardiff. Bordeaux faced Northampton Saints in European rugby's showpiece event in the Welsh capital last weekend, with the French side winning 28-20 and securing their first-ever European trophy. However, shortly after the full-time whistle, attention was drawn to the immediate aftermath, with Pollock getting stuck into it with Bordeaux prop Jefferson Poirot. The Frenchman was subsequently cited for grabbing Pollock's throat and will now miss his side's final two games of the Top 14 regular season. Pollock and team-mate Tommy Freeman appeared as guests on the latest episode of TNT Sports' The Rugby Breakdown Show and touched on the post-match melee. Sign up to Inside Welsh rugby on Substack to get exclusive news stories and insight from behind the scenes in Welsh rugby. The British & Irish Lions bolter was asked about the incident and told the tale from his perspective. "The whistle goes, and obviously it's pretty heated. I think Dingers (Fraser Dingwall) and (Matthieu) Jalibert were pushing and shoving," Pollock told TNT Sports. "I went over to Jalibert, pushed him and got involved, and was like: 'I'm not letting Dingers be on his own here'. "And then as I'm doing this – I didn't know this in the moment, Fin (Smith) was looking around – apparently the loosehead (Poirot) was on the bench and beelined it straight to me. "So we're in this, and he basically grabs my neck and gets his hands on my throat and squeezes my neck," he added. "I wasn't happy with this, I was pretty angry. "I managed to rip his shirt, and then the bit that you see is as he turns away, I push him, and then his friend comes in. "We had to do statements after. It was mad, you've just won the Champions Cup and the first thing you want to do is run on and strangle a 20-year-old." On Bordeaux players mimicking Pollock's celebration after their victory, David Flatman asked Freeman whether he was a fan of it. "I wouldn't say I love it," began Freeman. "I would actually say, if they want to do that, and make you (Pollock) the front line of their celebrations, then fair play. "He's probably got a bit of a target on his back, through no fault of his own." You can watch the clip below. Content cannot be displayed without consent Article continues below Twenty-year-old Pollock has one game left of the regular season with Saints before taking on Australia with the Lions. He will be the youngest Lion on tour, and like Louis Rees-Zammit in 2021, has the responsibility of carrying BIL the stuffed lion for the entirety of the tour. The young English star will get his first opportunity to play for the Lions when they face Argentina in the opening match of the tour on June 20.
Global News
18 hours ago
- Business
- Global News
Handy home gadgets that *really* work
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Irish Examiner
a day ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Rónan Kelleher and Leinster determined to go full bore for URC run-in
Rónan Kelleher didn't watch all of last Saturday's Champions Cup final between Bordeaux-Begles and Northampton Saints. The bit he did take in was more than enough to stir understandable pangs of regret. 'You naturally are thinking when you're watching it, 'it could have been us', but this year wasn't to be. Nothing we can do about it now, just focus on something that we can control, which is [the URC] and we'll focus on next year, next year.' It's already four weeks since Leinster let slip another golden opportunity to claim a fifth star by losing that semi-final to the Saints at the Aviva Stadium. Would they have beaten Bordeaux in Cardiff? We'll never know, and that should hurt too. If there was the sliver of a silver lining then it was in the fact that a former Leinster man got a winner's medal, even if Joey Carbery didn't feature on the day. And there was the input of another former Leinster employee in Noel McNamara. Now attack coach with Bordeaux, McNamara held a handful of different development roles at Leinster and he was a highly-rated Ireland U20s head coach when Kelleher was progressing through that portion of the national system. 'A legend. He has obviously done a great job, he's a great fella. I'm happy for him. As disappointed as I am it wasn't us, you're glad when it is one of your own gets a chance. 'I'm absolutely delighted for Noel and he has done a fantastic job, even going off to the Sharks before that. He did a great job with them as well. He's brilliant.' Kelleher's own frustrations were salved in part only five days after that Northampton loss when he was one of a dozen Leinster players, including housemate Hugo Keenan, to be selected for the British and Irish Lions tour of Australia. This will be his second summer in red. Four years ago he didn't make Warren Gatland's initial squad only to be called-up as a fourth, back-up hooker shortly after scoring four tries for Ireland against the USA in what was just his 12th Test cap. He arrived in South Africa the week of the first Test against the Springboks. This will be very different, as he beds in with the other 37 travellers from the off for a tour that won't be pared back and denuded of its usual colour by a pandemic. Kelleher has already checked in with the Lions for a get-to-know-you operational day in London two Sundays ago when they mingled with staff and fellow players and got to share the odd coffee and beer. Very different to 2021. 'Absolutely. There were no fans [then], so it was a very different tour. That kind of had its pros and cons. A pro was probably that you got to know everyone pretty well because you kind of had to. You were in each other's space 24/7. 'I was out there for, whatever it was, four weeks plus the Jersey training camp. In that regard it was good because you got to know everyone, but it wasn't really touring. From the chat we had over in London that time, it's going to be an unbelievable experience. 'The way people who have talked to us, who have been on that previous Lions tour, have said it has been brilliant, some of the highlights of their lives. Please God, all going well, it will be a good tour.' But forget the Lions and the Champions Cup for now. Leinster's ongoing failure to convert their raw materials and resources into trophies this past three seasons had already been an issue before the Saints defeat at the start of this month. Fail to win a first URC title and the klaxons will be blaring. That the URC is the less shiny of the two baubles available is undeniable but three successive semi-final league defeats have added considerably to the sense of a team saddled with a mental brittleness. They need to change that. 'Each year our goal is to win both. We put big emphasis on both. There has always been a massive focus. If there wasn't, it'd be doing a disservice to the lads who put in a big shift all year, who maybe aren't playing the European games and stuff like that. 'So it's absolutely massive for us as a group, as a whole, and also to give everyone a chance of lifting silverware, but probably most importantly the lads that are moving on and the lads who have gotten you to this point.'
The 42
a day ago
- Sport
- The 42
'It was good because you got to know everyone, but it wasn't really touring'
RONAN KELLEHER SAYS his forthcoming trip to Australia with the British & Irish Lions will have a fresh feel to it. Despite only making his Ireland senior debut in February of the previous year, Kelleher joined the Lions for a pre-season training camp that took place in Jersey ahead of their Tour of South Africa in 2021. This was to provide cover for hookers Jamie George and Luke Cowan-Dickie (who had club commitments to contend with) and while the Dubliner wasn't on the touring squad at that time, he was officially added to the Lions set-up on 14 July of that year. Yet that Tour (on which Kelleher didn't see any game time) was played in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and a number of restrictions were imposed as a result – including the absence of spectators for their three Test matches against the Springboks. Advertisement Although he still made the most of his time in the squad, Kelleher is looking forward to sampling the full Lions experience in Australia. 'There was no fans, so it was a very different tour. That kind of had its pros and cons. A pro was probably that you got to know everyone pretty well, because you kind of had to. You were obviously in each other's space 24/7. I was out there for, whatever it was, four weeks plus the Jersey training camp,' Kelleher said at a Leinster media briefing on Monday. 'In that regard it was good because you got to know everyone, but it wasn't really touring. I think it's going to be an unbelievable experience. People who have talked to us, who have been on previous Lions tours, have said it has been brilliant. Some of the highlights of their lives. Please God, all going well, it will be a good tour.' After playing some part in the past three deciders, Kelleher found himself in the unfamiliar position of being idle when Bordeaux Begles and Northampton Saints faced off in the latest European Champions Cup final last Saturday. Despite the disappointment of that last-four defeat at the hands of Northampton, there was one man Kelleher was pleased for on the weekend just gone. Bordeaux's attack specialist Noel McNamara was head coach of the Ireland U20s when Kelleher featured for them in 2018 and the former St Michael's College student was effusive in his praise of the Clare native. 'A legend. He has obviously done a great job, he's a great fella. I'm happy for him. As disappointed as I am it wasn't us, you're glad when it is one of your own gets a chance. I'm absolutely delighted for Noel and he has obviously done a fantastic job, even going off to the Sharks before that. He obviously did a great job with them as well. He's brilliant.' Whereas McNamara and Bordeaux will be hoping to follow up their Champions Cup triumph by getting their hands on the Top 14 trophy in France, Kelleher and Leinster are aiming to achieve their own success in the United Rugby Championship in the coming weeks. The first obstacle the eastern province have to overcome in their bid for URC glory is a quarter-final tie against Scarlets at the Aviva Stadium tomorrow afternoon (kick-off 3pm). Kelleher was in the starting line-up when Leinster lost to the Welsh region in a regular season game at Parc y Scarlets on 26 April and even though the Blues weren't at full strength on that occasion, Kelleher is expecting a similar challenge from the Llanelli-based outfit in their latest duel. 'Obviously off the back of it they got into the play-offs and I thought they were really good on the day. I thought we obviously were poor in parts as well, but we obviously know how much of a threat that they can cause. Having played in it, you obviously get it first hand,' Kelleher added. 'We took a lot of learnings from that game. What we did wrong, what we need to get right the next day. I think that is going to be a massive challenge this weekend, but it had also been a massive focus for us last week. Because obviously we had the down week not playing in that game [Champions Cup final] and this week now going ahead.'
