Paul, the psychic Octopus supports Spain to win FIFA World Cup 2010 semi-final
As the FIFA World Cup 2010 is reaching its end, Paul the German octopus is becoming more and more famous for his accurate predictions. Paul was born in England and now resides in an aquarium in Germany. He became a famous predictor in the European Championship in 2008 when he started predicting for all the matches that Germany played in.
Paul became famous because he has a 100 % correct prediction record for all the matches played by Germany. So it works like this; Paul is presented with two containers, each with a flag of Germany and its opposing team in the FIFA World Cup 2010. Both the containers include a mussel that he eats and whichever container he chooses to eat from, that country wins the game.
His prediction with the first match against Australia proved to be right along with all the other wins that the Germans have had up till now. Paul chose to eat from Serbia’s container during the second match in the group stages and Serbia won the match 1-0. No one really knows how this works and according to the caretaker, it’s “Paul’s little secret.”
Paul has been receiving threats from the Argentinean fans after Argentina lost from the Germans. Fans in Argentina claimed that they were going to kill and eat the octopus to end this matter once and for all. Paul predicted that Argentina is going to lose the match against Germany. Unfortunately for Diego Maradona, the Germans did exactly the same as the Argentineans faced a crushing 4-0 drubbing over them.
A few days back, Paul was going to predict the outcome of the semi-final between Spain and Germany. He was presented with two containers once again. According to the people present there, he was sitting on the German container. But in a dramatic move, Paul moved towards the Spanish container. He chose the European Champions and started eating from the container. Unfortunately for the German supporters out there, Paul opened the lid and ate his food to show that Spain is the side who is going to win the semi-final.
Paul, for now, has a hundred percent record in this FIFA World Cup 2010. Similarly, Paul had a hundred percent record back in Euro 2008 until he chose the Germans to win over Spain. At the end of the day, the Spaniards won the match with a score of 1-0. Fernando Torres was the one who scored the winning goal of the match who proved that Paul was wrong.
This particular incident that took place back in 2008 has given hopes to the German fans as they say that Germany is still going to win. They believe that Germany will repeat that historical performance to prove that Paul was lying in 2008 and he is lying in 2010. They think he might have an “error” while choosing between Germany and Spain.
Whatever the truth may be, or whoever wins, all we know is that this octopus is different from the others. Facts say that the octopus lives for about one to one-and-a-half years. However, this octopus is 2-years old already. Some facts even say that octopuses self explode when they breed, but no one is too sure what runs in this octopus and how it works for him as he predicts football matches with pin-point precision.
Two years ago, Paul made the only mistake in his psychic career. As a result, no one is sure whether he is incorrect about the semi-final between Spain and Germany. Only time can tell Paul psychic career grows over time or collapses before the FIFA World Cup 2010.
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