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'''Gotschalk Steban Frídrischsón Müler''', more widely known as '''The Locust of Hendalarsk''', '''The Locust''' or '''the Golzkreis Raider''', is a [[Hendalarsk|Hendalarskara]] football fan and groundhopper<ref>An individual who makes a point of visiting as many different sporting grounds as possible, most commonly association football grounds.</ref> who became famous and notorious on [[IxTwitter]] in the late 2010s after his followers realised that every single game he attended in the course of the 2016-17 season, even between starkly mismatched sides, had ended in a draw. Further examination of his groundhopping history led to the realisation that Müler had never been present at a win in ''his entire life'', despite having visited almost 1,000 different grounds across Hendalarsk and the wider [[Vandarch]] region, and indeed that he had little mental concept of "winning" at all, once remarking to a visiting [[Faneria|Fanerian]] journalist that "it doesn't sound very fair". A joint investigation by Hendalarskara footballing and legal authorities, realising the sheer statistical improbability of such a sequence, first sought to disprove the accuracy of Müler's claims. Upon realising that Müler was telling the truth, the authorities then aimed to uncover links between the seemingly childlike<ref>Psychologists examined Müler and concluded that he had a mental age roughly corresponding to the median 9-year-old, a detail which had gone entirely unnoticed by his colleagues at ''Die | '''Gotschalk Steban Frídrischsón Müler''', more widely known as '''The Locust of Hendalarsk''', '''The Locust''' or '''the Golzkreis Raider''', is a [[Hendalarsk|Hendalarskara]] football fan and groundhopper<ref>An individual who makes a point of visiting as many different sporting grounds as possible, most commonly association football grounds.</ref> who became famous and notorious on [[IxTwitter]] in the late 2010s after his followers realised that every single game he attended in the course of the 2016-17 season, even between starkly mismatched sides, had ended in a draw. Further examination of his groundhopping history led to the realisation that Müler had never been present at a win in ''his entire life'', despite having visited almost 1,000 different grounds across Hendalarsk and the wider [[Vandarch]] region, and indeed that he had little mental concept of "winning" at all, once remarking to a visiting [[Faneria|Fanerian]] journalist that "it doesn't sound very fair". A joint investigation by Hendalarskara footballing and legal authorities, realising the sheer statistical improbability of such a sequence, first sought to disprove the accuracy of Müler's claims. Upon realising that Müler was telling the truth, the authorities then aimed to uncover links between the seemingly childlike<ref>Psychologists examined Müler and concluded that he had a mental age roughly corresponding to the median 9-year-old, a detail which had gone entirely unnoticed by his colleagues at ''Die Golzkreise Seidung''.</ref> Müler and an array of shadowy [[Miledaas|Miledásische]] gambling consortia, before concluding that there was no criminal element to his actions at all and that his record simply constituted a bizarre anomaly. | ||
After he was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, clubs who found themselves in need of draws actively began to court Müler with the promise of free tickets. As Müler had previously vowed never to visit any ground except that of his beloved [[Golzkreiser Kickers]] more than once, many clubs were frustrated in their efforts, while those desperate to avoid draws sought banning orders against him. Since Müler was in many respects a model football fan - an enthusiastic singer and chanter who nevertheless never drank and never swore - these attempts to ban him were invariably unsuccessful. Müler also studiously avoided domestic and continental cup knockout games, as he found the concept of one team being eliminated based on one or two 90-minute performances extremely distressing. | After he was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, clubs who found themselves in need of draws actively began to court Müler with the promise of free tickets. As Müler had previously vowed never to visit any ground except that of his beloved [[Golzkreiser Kickers]] more than once, many clubs were frustrated in their efforts, while those desperate to avoid draws sought banning orders against him. Since Müler was in many respects a model football fan - an enthusiastic singer and chanter who nevertheless never drank and never swore - these attempts to ban him were invariably unsuccessful. Müler also studiously avoided domestic and continental cup knockout games, as he found the concept of one team being eliminated based on one or two 90-minute performances extremely distressing. | ||