Ed Willes: Robinson knows way past San Jose rests on ‘big Caps’ rising

Three days ago, in the Vancouver Whitecaps’ biggest game of the Major League Soccer season and one of the biggest in club history, Carl Robinson fielded a lineup that could be described in a number of ways.
Surprising is one way. Unorthodox is another. Eccentric? Yes, that works. So does unconventional, idiosyncratic and offbeat.
Are we painting a picture here?
But there was one term that couldn’t be applied to the configuration which fell to the Portland Timbers 2-1 and cost the &ls