It's a real pain in the backside the Internet here at times, even using a VPN.
Thanks for the links to those sites, I'll get my wife to read through them and let me know the in's & out's of it all, 258 rmb seems a steal!
The one thing I liked about iFollow was being able to watch the recorded full-game when it suited me (easy to avoid knowing the scores here), rather than having to set the alarm at silly oçlock watching mid-week games.
BTW: where in China are you exactly?