A New Sensation - Wooooooow
du Nord, April 7, 2005
You all know Steve Sampson. Right?Legend. Mentor. Heroic World Cup Coach. Supreme Being who gave the world the mighty 3-6-1 formation (so powerful it spawned its own magazine).And you may not be able to conceive this, but once again, this man has turned the sporting world on its ear (it has ears?).I understand that it's really quite difficult to imagine a mind so creative that it could design yet another whole new innovation to a game that’s probably thousands of years old. No one ever thought we would live to see one guy who could do it twice. But maybe we should all learn not to underestimate this man called Sampson.Let me set a stage for you.Last Saturday as the Galaxy were busy getting pasted 3-0 by Columbus, I scanned the lineup, I watched the flow, I mentally logged the substitution pattern, and like any good admirer of a master, I tried to absorb it all as quickly as possible and learn from it.It took me the whole match and several days afterward to ponder what I had seen. I couldn't quite pick it out