It's Paul vs Mani in the World Cup final!

Updated on: 10 July,2010 06:36 AM IST |
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While Paul has picked Spain to beat the Netherlands, Mani a parakeet has predicted that the Dutch will be World Champions

Franz Beckenbauer, Pele and Jurgen Klinsmann have some serious rivals when it comes to World Cup punditry.
Paul the octopus and Mani the Singapore parakeet have been consistently predicting winners in the ongoing World Cup final.

However as it turns out, they have both saved their test for last.
While Paul has picked Spain to beat the Netherlands, Mani has predicted that the Dutch will be World Champions.

He also correctly foretold that the English would not prevail over the Germans. Now, he believes Spain will win the cup while. In the now familiar routine, two boxes were lowered into Paul's tank, each containing a mussel and the flags of the two opposing teams. The tentacled tipster went straight to the Spanish box, opened the lid and gobbled the mussel completely ignoring the Netherlands box.

Meanwhile, emerged from its cage at a store in Singapore's Little India, and picked the card with the Netherlands' flag in it.

Mani has correctly predicted all four winners in the World Cup quarter-finals, local media has reported.u00a0 Just like Paul, Mani too has rapidly gained cult status among gambling-mad football fans in Singapore. Let's wait and watch which animal instinct is right!

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