“One man’s misery, another man’s joy!” Steffen Baumgart laughed and shoved his phone back into his pocket, shaking his head. Who would have thought it? Only hours earlier, Paderborn’s new coach had still been brooding over the right phrasing for the coming relegation press conference.\n\nNow he had to rewrite all those carefully prepared lines from scratch: Paderborn were staying in the league.
The symbolic red lantern had all but been hung on the blue-and-black clubhouse already, because 18th place in 2016/17 should have meant relegation to the Regionalliga West. Should have.