At this point we first have to tell a short story about Rolf Rüssmann.
The Schalke defensive icon was a manager at VfB Stuttgart years ago, and Jochen Schneider was his apprentice there - and hung Rüssmann's famous old saying about the Schalke away games on the wall of his office: "If we don't win, we'll at least kick their turf apart . "
Schalke don't even do that anymore.
Everything was fine.
Until this inimitable celebratory speech.
Since then it's only been downhill.