It's all got fuck all to do with the match.
I hate all that shite. I hate shitty forced half time entertainment instead of some fat waster taking pens. I hate mascots, I hate jester hats, big fuck off foam hands, people watching the match through their phones (the excuse that it's their only time there is daft, if it's your only time there then enjoy it instead of watching on a small screen), the never ending sponsors (Liverpool fc only use kleenex toilet roll to wipe their shite off their arse), I hate that awful goddamn basketball music that clubs like Bolton & Blackburn play when their team scores, the fact that commentators are forced to call grounds by their sponsored names.
It's all shite.
Liverpool have avoided a great deal of it, to do something as tacky as this is awful.
Besides that, if you're a young mascot, who do you want to lead you onto the pitch, Steven Gerrard, or some arsehole in a red pterodactyl costume? It's stealing their most precious moment of the day. They can fuck off.