Following football is becoming an increasingly difficult past-time. It seems that at every turn there an additional cost or subscribtion to get a piece of the action.

Putting aside the fact that ticket prices in the UK are well above anywhere else in Europe, watching football on the telly used to be straight forward; pop on the telly or head down the local. Then Sky came along, which was an expenditure I could afford and then Setanta which was irritating and didn't seem worth the £12.99 extra cost to my Sky bill.

They came and went, and were replaced by ESPN - which given the other sports on offer seems like a reasonable offer at £10 a month. But then we find out England are to play online and in cinemas which is a little odd but I guess I could stump up another £4.99 or £11.99 if I really wanted to.

Now I find out that England U21s are playing on Chelsea TV. That'll be another £5.87. Sadly, I used to have Chelsea TV but watching the Youth Team, the Ressies and the couple of exclusive interviews that end up on Sky Sports News ten minutes later lost its appeal pretty quickly.

Could it be that finally we are getting a little bored of non-stop football coverage? That no broadcaster (not even Five) was willing to make a decent bid to show Ukraine vs. England, or that the U21s are no longer a draw suggest that could be the case.

Sky has for years now overhyped football - Super Sunday!... is West Ham vs. Birmingham City super in anyones book? - and the tabloids sports pages talk of little else. But sometimes less is more...

For me it's getting too expensive and I'm losing the will to work out whose playing where and when... or even why! I'm going to get a life.