Paul the octopus: The world's best Football forecaster.....

He has eight legs but has never kicked a ball. That, however, hasn't stopped Paul the octopus from becoming the world's finest football forecaster. With 100% correct predictions - six out of six - on the outcome of games in the 2010 World Cup, the four-year-old tentacled tipster is every bookmaker's envy too.

Everybody wants to know whom he will select as world champion. He is a global talking point. Google him and you get about 2,630,000 results. And in Google news there are more than 6000 news item on Paul the octopus world over and is currently among the top 10 trends on Twitter. And he is big enough to get death threats. Embittered by Argentina's loss to Germany - an outcome predicted by Paul - Argentine chef Nicolas Bedorrou wants to beat him to death.

"In order to keep the meat tender and then put it in boiling water." Once a darling in Deutschland, most Germans now envision him fried in garlic butter after he predicted that the team would lose to Spain. Crowds are singing anti-octopus songs. The internet too is overflowing with comments, especially now that Paul is to predict the final result - the first time he'll prophesy about a match not featuring Germany.

He should apply for express immigration to whichever country he picks as winner, says a one such Facebook entry which is being flooded by status messages from many across the world on Paul the octopus.

And the latest news is that Paul has picked Spain to win this FIFA world cup, and Germany to win their match against Uruguay for the 3rd place face-off....

What do you think people, is Paul the octopus just getting plain lucky or it has got to do something else like as everybody says its psychic and predicts what happens in the future atleast interms of Football in this world cup......