Octopus Update

Three further things about Paul the psychic octopus, who you might remember from a week and a bit ago, and even if you don't, you must have heard about by now because he is becoming quite the media darling (trending all over Twitter as I write):


1. The Germans are quite cross with him because he predicted Spain's win last night. He did this live on national television, further proof of his growing fame.  My favourite line from the news coverage:

Bitterness at Germany's 1-0 defeat to Spain turned to anger with some sections of the 350,000-strong crowd in Berlin insulting both Paul and his mother.

2. He might be predicting the final (big news, since so far he's only been consulted on Germany matches) but only if he's a) not too tired and b) hungry enough to still care about mussels* after predicting the Germany/Uruguay result.

3. He has his own Wikipedia page.



*Paul makes his predictions by picking one of two musssels; each is kept in a glass jar with a national flag on it, and the one he picks first is his tip.