Football fans in Bristol fiddling with their TV remotes on Saturday hoping to watch England's World Cup qualifier against the Ukraine will be sorely disappointed.

The match is the first England international to be screened exclusively on the internet and will not feature on any of the traditional terrestrial or satellite channels.

There will be no BBC, ITV, Five or Sky Sports treatment this time round and punters must pay online or visit a cinema if they want to tune in to the action.

The game will be streamed by media group Perform via a website and will cost fans £11.99 on the day or £9.99 for early subscribers today or Friday.

Chairman of the Bristol Rovers Supporters Trust, Jim Chappell, is one of many fans who will miss out on the match as a result.

"I wouldn't pay but it doesn't matter anyway as we've already qualified," he told the Evening Post. "I normally watch England and I think this is wrong. It's a great shame that national games are not on terrestrial TV."

Irish broadcaster Setanta had originally bought the rights to all England's group matches but collapsed in June.

The rights reverted to international agency Kentaro which failed to agree a deal with any of the traditional broadcasters.

Perform, who deliver more than 15,000 live events on the internet each year stepped in and agreed a pay-per-view internet deal.

They have previous. Just under a year ago Perform salvaged coverage of away matches in the UEFA Cup for Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur when neither terrestrial nor satellite TV deals materialised and streamed them live through the clubs' websites.

James Richardson will present the live coverage, alongside ex-England manager and Notts County Director of Football Sven-Goran Eriksson. Commentary will come from David Pleat and Tony Jones.

Publicans and supporters' groups who prefer to watch their football in the pub have been appealing the decision to exclude coverage from the nations' watering holes and instead foster a deal with the Odeon cinema chain.

But not in Bristol. The nearest Odeon showing the match, which kicks off at 5.15pm with coverage (online) from 4.45pm, is in Bath.

Nicola Cumner, assistant manager of the BS3 bar in Ashton, told the Evening Post: "We're disappointed as we get a lot of fans in here wanting to watch the football. People are already struggling enough paying for Sky and ESPN to watch football.

"It's a great shame as we get a good crowd for England games and we always decorate the pub for it. Not that many people know it's on the internet either. We've had a few people in here this week checking its on and disappointed to find it isn't."

The good news is England have already qualified for the 2010 World Cup, rendering their performance at the Dnipro Arena in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, largely irrelevant. England manager Fabio Capello will be loathe to break England's sequence of eight wins in qualifying, though, whether we're watching or not.