If you’re looking for a quality sleep aid and don’t want to use drugs like Colin Powell, I have a recommendation for you: Major League Soccer.

Over the weekend, two Prem-lovin’ bloggers — David Hirshey at Deadspin and Garth at Soccernista — tried to watch the opening weekend of MLS. Both reported dozing off by the second half. I feel strangely vindicated by this — even more vindicated than I felt after the dueling Champions Cup collapses of both D.C. United and the Houston Dynamo in Mexico. No wonder MLS is scared of Copa Libertadores. Those teams couldn’t get through Mexico to get to South America!

On the other hand, I couldn’t even sit through a tape-delay of the second half of Monday’s Charlton-Reading match, which ended in a scoreless tie, Reading’s second in 4 games. The Royals have scored 2 goals in their last 5 Premiership matches and earned a meager 2 points in their last 6. It’s starting to remind me of that 2005 Steelers-Ravens game in which Tommy Maddox and Kyle Boller were the starting QBs. That’s not a good thing…

In other Premier League news, Jose Mourinho is talking shit again. This usually leads to a team collapse, which I half expect to happen in Estadio Mestalla any minute now…