Germany v Spain: Paul the psychic octopus predicts World Cup defeat for Joachim Löw
Germany have been dealt a 'massive' blow to their World Cup chances after the psychic octopus, Paul, picked Spain to win their semi-final clash.
Paul has predicted all of Germany's World Cup results correctly so far, including wins against England and Argentina.
Paul even said that Serbia would beat Germany 1-0 in the group stage.
However, there is still a glimmer of hope for Germany. In all his years of making predictions, the only one Paul has ever got wrong was the Spain v Germany final at Euro 2008.
The octopus opted for Germany but Spain were the victors, winning 1-0.
German fans are now hoping the opposite will happen and by picking Spain to win it will actually be Germany who come out on top.
Such is the popularity that surrounds the octopus the German news channel n-tv actually broadcasted its Germany-Spain prediction live, even having two reporters commentating on it.
The handlers of the psychic octopus at Aquarium Sea Life in Oberhausen encourage Paul to make the predictions by putting mussels into two glass cubes, with each cube having one of the nation's flags on the front.
The mussel Paul chooses first is taken to be its prediction.
Paul initially went to the Spain-marked container before moving around the tank and then hovered over the German box. But he eventually opted for the European champions.
Paul has become world reknowned, but this good humoured, quirky phenomenon has not been well recieved by everybody.
Following the quarter-final prediction where Paul correctly guessed Argentina would lose to Germany the Argentineans threatened to kill the octopus and put it in a paella.
The newspaper El Dia gave this recipe for anyone daring to capture Paul: "All you need is four normal potatoes, olive oil for taste and a little pepper."
Argentinan chef Nicolas Bedorrou has suggested on Facebook a far more simplistic and brutal way to cook the octopus.
"We will chase him and put him on some paper. We will then beat him (but correctly!) in order to keep the meat tender and then put it in boiling water."
Summary
Paul otopus is an octopus that by chance or not, guess who was who would win maches were made in the World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
What they did was put into a fishbowl, in wich he had the flag of two teams were to play. Next, the octapus, it became one of the flags. Finally, this team was to win the match.
The octapus Paul, was a symbol of this competition, because guess old the matches including that of Spain-Netherland.
He is loved by Spanish, because the team that won the World Cup final, was Spain.
