Fut(bol) In Mouth

Let me get this straight. Sigi is out because -- if GM Doug Hamilton is to be believed -- the Galaxy aren't playing attractive enough soccer. Then they bring in Steve Sampson, whose biggest claim to fame is playing with one forward in France in 1994?

[Um, oops, make that 1998. My editors suck. - Ed.]

Somebody's hiding something. No question. And Hamilton's apparently not bright enough to realize how quickly the house of cards falls when you look at Sampson's track record.

Two competing, or possibly complementary, theories are floating around the net. First, that Schmid completely lost his locker room, with a fight in practice between players caught by the media and a starting striker going to the locker room in a petulant frenzy after being subbed out in a recent match. Second, that there were some back room dealings between Schmid and Juergen Klinsmann regarding an assistant coaching gig in Germany that Hamilton must have found out about. It's always hard to tell what's completely uninformed speculation and what's got a foot in reality with these sorts of rumors, but the former sounds a bit more likely than the latter.