Image via WikipediaSpain won the FIFA Worldcup 2010 first time.
First Position : Spain
Second Position : Netherlands
Third Position : Germany
Showing posts with label Octopus Paul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Octopus Paul. Show all posts
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Parakeet forecasts Dutch World Cup victory, octopus goes for Spain
Image via WikipediaMani, a 13-year-old parakeet in Singapore, has forecast the Netherlands will win the World Cup final in South Africa on Sunday.
Mani, who successfully picked the winners for the quarter-finals and Spain's semi-final win over Germany, flipped over a card to reveal the Dutch flag in Friday's forecasting session, news agency AP reported. But Paul, the German octopus who is said to have a 100% success rate in the earlier World Cup rounds, has picked Spain as Sunday's winner. Under the eyes of many tv cameras, Paul first ate mussels from a tank marked with the Spanish flag.
There is still hope for Holland, Nos tv says. In the 2008 European championships Paul also had it right up to the final, but then wrongly predicted Germany would beat Spain.
A Dutch new entrant in the forecasting market, a female octopus at the Sealife centre in Scheveningen, has also predicted a Dutch victory. The appropriately named Pauline ignored the pot of Spanish mussels, Nos says.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Octopus Paul predicts Spain to win WC FIFA 2010
New Delhi: It seems the animal kingdom is backing two different teams when it comes to picking the winner of the 2010 Football World Cup. Barely a couple of hours after Mani the parakeet picked Holland as its choice, Octopus Paul has yet again forecast a Spanish victory in the title fight that will be held at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday.
The octopus, who has already attained a celebrity status, completely ignored the Dutch tank at the German Aquarium in Oberhausen and indicated his preferance for the Spanish flag by quickly polishing off the mussel from their tank.
Paul has been predicting results involving Germany throughout the tournament and had predicted Germany's loss to Spain in the semi finals as well, much to the dismay of the German fans.
But Paul on Friday gave them a ray of hope as well as he predicted a German win in the battle for third place against Uruguay that is slated to be played on Saturday. Germany had also finished third in the previous edition of the tournament when they had played host in 2006.
Being a celebrity has its flip side as well. It has not taken him long to become the villain of the piece as the Germans came up second best against Spain. Having said that, he has now got a new fan following among the Spaniards and the Spanish Prime Minister has even offered 'state protection' to the eight-legged creature.
Source: IBNLive
