Telegraph UK shortly reported that Paul the psychic octopus has predicted Spain will beat Holland and win World Cup 2010 while Germany shall be triumphant in the third and fourth place play-off.

The news will come as a boost to Spain ahead of the World Cup final against Holland at Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg on Sunday.

The psychic octopus has not made a mistake when predicting the outcome of a football match for two years. At this World Cup Paul has predicted all of Germany's results correctly even including the defeats against Serbia in the group stages and Spain in the semi-finals.

The octopus had already made it's prediction for the third and fourth place play-off opting for the mussel in the Germany box. It took Paul just a couple of minutes to decide its adopted nation will beat Uruguay to take third place in the tournament.

 I'm now putting money on Spain 

We will see...)

Thought he picked Hollands?

If the dutch that ruled south africa as a virtual slave colony for centuries are going to win the world cup there :-) it's ironic. Don't you think! ;o)

Ok those Spaniards are so certain they're gonna win and now this...... We might as well not play, Spain has already won.

I just placed a $100,000 bet based on the octopus. Am I wrong?

I hope you are!

the octopus is English so it will be wrong!!

It looks English right enough...

His record is not perfect, anyway, say his owners. Paul got it wrong in about 30% of Germany's games during the 2008 European Championship, including their loss to Spain in the final.

but Paul can 100% taste the difference between german and english beer

in 3 month I will eat octupus again, when I return to Thailand.