See, I’m not the new Paul the Octopus. The late, great Paul would have predicted that Tim Krul would be on the bench where he can’t save penalties. But if I’m not, then who is?

Well, there are plenty of contenders. Here’s a summary by Yahoo Sports from a couple of weeks ago:

But since this video was made, it seems as though a Camel from Dubai called Shaheen has been on a roll, calling around two-thirds of all matches correctly. His prediction for the final is out already:

And meanwhile, investment banks, mobile phone personal assistants, political number crunchers, quantum physicists and others have all been getting in on the act. We will see who’s right on Sunday…

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