I don't usually follow football, but I was forced to do a predictions sheet et work. OK, not forced at gunpoint, but everyone else that works there is either (a) a aports journalist (b) a football fanatic or (c) both so I thought it'd be funny if I managed to do better than any of them.
I did put out an internet appeal for help filling in my predictions, but it appears I don't know any football fans - I got 3 suggestions: All the teams will spontaneously combust, Trinidad and Tobago to win, and world cup cancelled due to alien invasion. (Out of the 3, alien invasion was probably most likely - I nearly scrawled that across my form instead of filling it in.) In the end, I looked up some odd and used them to make up pretty patterns and little stories on the page.
When I got into work yesterday I found I had predicted the winners of all but one of the weekend's games correctly, and was leadinf the challenge. We had the afternoon's game on in the office - I predicted Australia would win 3-1 but they spent most of the game 3-0 down. They then scored 3 times in the last 10 minues. People started looking at me funny and asking if I had any hints for lottery numbers.
(I got the USA game completely wrong last night - I had them winning 3-2 - but I got Italy spot on as well...)
So if it turns out I do have spooky psychic powers, it'll be Argentina beating Holland in the final, with Italy third (out to Holland) and Brazil fourth (out to Argentina)
(I picked Argentina in a deliberate act of vengence against the nasty people who made me spend even an hour of my life thinking about football - England fans hate Argentina even more than they hate Germany. I also had them knock out England in the quarter finals for good measure.)
It just goes to show, you should always ignore reality and make it up as you go along
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:19 am
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