Despite my dad’s best efforts to drag me along to see Bristol Rovers play when I was a kid, football never grabbed me, but nowadays as an adult, when a hi-stakes game is on it’s (generally) an interesting watch, and the stakes have never been higher for England than their do or die match against Slovenia this Wednesday.

But with a 15:00 kick-off it’s pretty much a given that a pretty big chunk of England’s working population will be either pulling a sickie (or if their employer has any sense – watching the match in work on a supplied TV set). But what happens if you’re going to be out and about?

Well the match is also being broadcast live on BBC Radio 5 Live which broadcasts on good ‘ole fashioned medium wave (MW 693 kHz, 909 kHz, 990 kHz) or on DAB, but what if you don’t have a radio?

Well this is the very scenario I will find myself in on Wednesday. Whereas normally I’d be sat at my desk all day and could be plugged into the iPlayer, at 15:00 on Wednesday I’m actually going to be out and about – until at least 16:00 – bad times! Then it struck me – I’ll have my iPhone in my pocket which will be connected to the internet (O2 network permitting of course).

So the question is can I use that to tap into BBC Radio 5 Live? The short answer is yes – with a little help.

BBC Radio 5 Live also broadcasts a live stream over the internet (as all BBC radio stations do), so with a cracking little free iPhone app called FStream you can hook up to that radio stream and listen via your iPhone on the go.

FStream, developed by Julien-Pierre Avérous, is put simply a streaming webradio player/recorder which you can use to listen to any internet streaming audio on your iDevice.

All you need to do is download the free FStream app from the App Store then fire up Safari and pop over to a handy little unofficial BBC Streams details site at http://bbcstreams.com/ and copy the link for the 5 Live stream. Open up FStream, switch to the favourites screen and paste the stream URL into the relevant box. You will also need to make sure you pop over to the More screen and turn on the Cellular Network option. Job done.

Let’s just hope it’s actually worth it and the match is even a tad more interesting than the last one against Algeria, which was like watching paint dry at time. Reminds me why I never wanted to watch Rovers.