A trial is only worth having if it tests the thing you actually care about. In Birmingham that means Aston Villa and Birmingham City in the Premier League and the EFL, plus the Champions League and the rest of the European nights. You get 24 hours on your own telly, no card at any stage, and someone on WhatsApp to get you running on the box already in the room.
Local viewing guide
Birmingham's football identity runs through the second city derby between Aston Villa and Birmingham City, a fixture with more genuine hostility behind it than most of the bigger-name derbies. Villa Park under lights is the city's biggest regular occasion. The West Midlands as a whole is unusually dense with clubs, so a household here often follows one side while living surrounded by supporters of three others. Birmingham also has one of the largest South Asian populations in the country, and cricket, particularly international and subcontinental cricket, has a following here that no standard domestic package properly serves. That gap is one of the more common reasons people in this city go looking for an alternative in the first place.
Birmingham is geographically large and varied, from Edgbaston and Moseley through Handsworth and out to Solihull and Sutton Coldfield, and coverage across the conurbation is generally good. Housing is the more interesting variable: substantial terraced and subdivided stock in the inner wards where installation is awkward, alongside suburban family homes where it is not. The city has a young population and several large universities with the usual short-lease churn. Given the demand here for cricket and for channels from South Asia, the most valuable use of the 24 hours is checking specifically whether those are present, rather than testing the football, which almost any service will carry in some form.
Spend the 24 hours on what you would genuinely miss. For Birmingham that means Aston Villa and Birmingham City in the Premier League and the EFL. Load the guide early, find the channel, and be sitting down at kick-off rather than judging it on an afternoon repeat. If the second city derby between Aston Villa and Birmingham City falls inside your 24 hours, that is the one to watch it on. Nothing at home matches Villa Park under lights, but the picture should still do the night justice.
Connection check
Broadband first, because it decides everything else. In and around Birmingham, strong cable and fibre coverage across the city. HD wants about 10 Mbps and 4K about 25 Mbps. Sky Sports and TNT Sports, with EFL games on Sky. Run your speed test at the busy hour, not the quiet one.
Setup
If you are already with Sky or Virgin Media in Birmingham, do not cancel a thing yet. Run the trial alongside what you have, compare the two on the same match, and only decide once you have watched Aston Villa on both. That is precisely why we do not take a card.
Give us a name and a WhatsApp number. That is the entire sign-up.
The login lands back in the same chat, generally within minutes.
A person, not a bot, helps you get it running on your existing telly or box.
Twenty-four hours to make your mind up. Nothing is stored, so nothing charges.
No. The 24-hour trial never asks for card details. You send your name and WhatsApp number, we send a login back, and you watch. Decide against it and nothing happens, because there is nothing on file to charge.
Neither. Nothing is installed and nothing is drilled. It works through the broadband already coming into your Birmingham home, on the telly or streaming stick sitting in the room right now.
The library includes the Premier League and the EFL coverage, so if a Aston Villa game falls inside your 24 hours you can check it on your own telly. Rights and fixtures move around between seasons, so testing it on a real match night is the only honest way to know.
About 10 Mbps for HD and 25 Mbps for 4K. Strong cable and fibre coverage across the city. Test during the evening peak rather than the middle of the day, because that is when the line is under load.
Nothing happens unless you ask it to. With no card stored there is nothing to renew. Carrying on is a one-off payment: £85 for The Taster and 10 months, or £255 for The Owner and lifetime access on one device, both with a 90-day money-back promise.
The same free trial applies wherever you are. If one of these is closer, start there.
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No card. Nothing to cancel.
Test it in your own sitting room in Birmingham for a full day. Nothing renews, because there is nothing on file to renew.
Channel and event availability changes over time, so nothing here guarantees any given match. Use the trial to check your own must-have channels before paying. If you continue, The Taster is £85 once for 10 months and The Owner is £255 once for lifetime access, both with a 90-day money-back promise.
