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Psychic octopus calls Spanish win

Paul the psychic octopus, who has correctly predicted all of Germany's results in their 2010 World Cup finals campaign so far, has plumped for Spain to win Wednesday's semi final. The only time that Paul, who has been predicting football results since 2008, has not called a game correctly was in the Euro2008 final, when he thought Germany would topple Spain. Perhaps he's trying to make up to the Spaniards for his earlier lack of belief in their side? Read more: Sky News

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