Paul the Octopus: 10 things about the Germany football matches predictor
Paul the Octopus has predicted Germany’s elimination by Spain.
He has also predicted almost perfectly the outcome of important matches for the German national team.
Now everybody in Germany hates him for yesterday’s prediction, that came true.
Here are 10 essential facts about the German people’s most wanted dinner:
1. He has hatched in 2006.
2. Paul lives in Sea Life Oberhausen, in the town of Oberhausen, in Germany.
3. He is a common octopus.
4. The first time he predicted matches was during UEFA Euro 2008. He got 4 out of 6 matches right.
5. He got the game against Croatia and the final against Spain wrong that time.
6. At World Cup 2010, he got 6 games out of 6 right.
7. He predicted correctly the wins Germany got against Australia, Ghana, England and Argentina.
8. He also got the defeats against Serbia and (most annoyingly for German fans) Spain right.
9. He was blamed by Argentine fans after their team lost 4-0 against Germany and got death threats.
10. He also got death threats, this time from German fans, after getting the Spain prediction right. The staff at Sea Life Oberhausen have promised to protect Paul.
Watch a video of Paul predicting Germany’s defeat against Spain below.
Well even if I am a huge German fan I still love Paul the octupus. It’s not his fault he just predicts the future anyhow prediction or not you can still write your own future. Though I hate Spain they did their thing in Euro 2008 final when he predicted Germany would win. Germany failed to get over that this World Cup and they stuck to his predictiion. The fact the he got everything right just makes him more brilliant and that is why I love paul the octupus. The only blame he can take is that maybe he influenced the players and they feared it would come true and didn’t attack as they should have and as they did in other matches when they had Paul to back them up.