The arena seats were already badly emptied and the fans had gone home in anger when the new EM mascot stood lost on the sidelines and grabbed his head. It probably wanted to adjust its seat, after all, a mascot head like that weighs heavily and this one in particular, but because its arms only reached to its mouth, it looked as if the bear was trying to tear the laughter out of its face and at least once to make an expression that evening that corresponded to the general mood of doom in the football nation. It didn’t work. As anyway nothing succeeded in Gelsenkirchen.
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