Maybe it is just about getting old. Maybe it is the fact half the players have unpronounceable names. Maybe it is the diving. Whatever it is, sports reporter Steve Hepburn lists 10 reasons why he no longer watches and barely follows English football.
1. It's not on Sky
It is played on the other side of the world - so you cannot walk to the game. And if you can't stand on the sideline, the only real way to follow it is on television.
But now it is not on Sky. One game a week is on TV One. Last weekend, it was on at 5.20am on Sunday. Good time, that.
But that's all right. Just catch the highlights package. On at the really friendly time of five minutes past midnight on a Wednesday, half a week after games have been played.
You can get something called the Premier League Pass. So you can watch it on a computer.
Who wants to do that?
You spend most working hours on a computer, then go home and watch sport on a computer.
Television is for watching sport. That why it has the word ''vision'' in it.
2. No-one else can win it
Exciting, this league. Remember the days when Aston Villa came from nowhere in the early 1980s to win the title?
But these days - no chance.
Now, most sport is like this, but it does seem ridiculous. Only a few teams can win it. Four, at the most.
They have so much money and so much power they just buy their way to the title.
How can you support a team like Sunderland when your object at the start of the season is to not get relegated?
3. Wads of it
That leads nicely into another turn-off: Money. Cash. It really is obscene.
A Colombian called Falcao, coming off a serious knee injury after an OK season in the rubbish French league, is getting the equivalent of more than $NZ400,000 a week to play for Manchester United.
Sure, he may be good, but for that sort of money he should be getting 10 goals a game. He is getting paid in a week just under what John Key gets in a year.
It has lost all perspective. The clueless David Luiz, who scored one lucky goal at the World Cup, went offshore for more than $NZ100 million.
Manchester United paid upwards of $NZ50 million for an untried left back. A left back!
When did one of those last win a game for any side?
4. Rich and unlikable owners
You have all these owners of clubs who have so much money they treat clubs like their own wee plaything.
Next time you fill your car up, and it costs half a week's wages, just be happy some of that money is going to some playboy sheikh so he can have fun watching his club win on a football field.
The Arabs have taken control of Manchester City. That would be like someone buying King Country and stocking it with the All Blacks.
Roman Abramovich, who made his money in strange ways, has loaned Chelsea more than $NZ1 billion. And Cardiff's new owner changed the colour of the side's strip.
What happened to clubs being owned by the community?
Or, if they were owned by rich men, being totally accountable to the fans and the league?
5. Johnny Foreigner
Remember back in the 1970s, when there was huge excitement when Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa came to Spurs? The first of the foreign invasion.
Now the league is completely overrun by foreigners. Guys with names which defy the English language.
Players no-one has ever heard of, who come from some no-name league.
When the Premier League started, there were 13 foreign players. Now just 32% of players are Englishmen.
You could say it is racist but, really, it is an English league. Should not most of the players be English?
Clubs now would rather buy a foreigner than an English player.
6. Johnny also in the stand
Not only are all the players foreign - so are the managers.
Slavs, Croats, Dutch, Spaniards, Frenchmen. Last week, Leeds hired someone from Slovenia.
Most people in Leeds would not even know where Slovenia is.
The worst bit about this is now these managers get interviewed after games and they can barely speak English.
How does training go? Is it workable?
A guy that cannot speak English trying to speak English to players who cannot speak English.
Is there some sort of sign language they use?
7. Scotland the brave
The tap of talent which used to cross the border from Scotland has just completely dried up.
Where are the Joe Jordans, the King Kennys, the Gordon Strachans? Or top strikers like Steve Archibald?
They used to come to England and tear it up, and Scotland was a real force in world football.
Australian Scott McDonald was one of the best in Scotland and transferred to the mighty - wait for it - Middlesbrough. He is now at Millwall. Enough said.
8. Hollywoods
Now, we know it is not rugby. Players do get tripped and fall over.
But it has gone too far. A good puff of wind would blow most of these guys over.
Some of them look as thought they have been shot when they get fouled.
The gamesmanship is frankly pathetic. It is just cheating. Plain and simple.
The game is almost a non-contact sport. Netball would be more physical.
Hard men such as Steve Foster and Roy Keane would not last long these days.
9. Fergie's gone
Sir Alex Ferguson was all that was good about the league.
Did not take any rubbish. Backed his young players if they were good enough.
Did not buy into any of the hype. Called a spade a spade.
Do you know in his first game in charge of Manchester United he sat beside the bus driver in the dugout?
Now he has left the building and the league is far poorer for it.
10. Red Devils are no good
Maybe that is what it all comes down to - Manchester United, my team, is no longer dominating.
Scolesy has gone. Giggsy has given it away. The best young talent at the club has no chance of getting into the first team.
Just a tad sad.
