By Chris Wright
Remember Il Pulpo Paul? The mystic octopus who was denounced by Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and then secretly assassinated by the CIA after 'predicting' a stack
of results at the 2010 World Cup? Remember? Paul? Okay? Well now forget him, because there's a new
psychic animal in town a llama from Ashdown Forest Llama Park in east Sussex (of course he's going
to be a Chelsea fan).
By Chris Wright
Patrice and Luis, in happier times
This weekend is FA Cup fourth-round weekend, and the headline affair is the first meeting
between Liverpool and Manchester United since that whole sordid Suarez/Evra ordeal swelled up,
became painfully inflamed, burst through the abdominal wall of public consciousness and then
scabbed over like a big racist hernia.
By Chris Wright
The Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaampions!!! League gets back under way tonight, with the
first-legs of the quarter-finals all due to be played out over the course of the next two nights.
We thought we'd have a little shufty at proceedings and make a few bold predictions.
By Chris Wright
"Juan, does this smell of Marmite to you?"
We are on the eve of a biggy people, leaning and listing lazily toward Chelsea versus Barcelona
at Stamford Bridge in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Champions League tomorrow night;
Chelsea are a quite good football team and Barca are quite good also, so the good news is that it
should be a good match in theory.
By Chris Wright
Roy Hodgson in 'Mission: Unenviable'
This may stagger you, but England aren't actually favourites to win the European Championships
this summer. Don't believe us? Check the Euro 2012 odds here. See? Somehow,
however, they are fourth in line (as far as the bookies are concerned) to emerge victorious in
Polkraine, which seems a little rich to us but hey-ho.
By Chris Wright
The Allianz Arena decked out in its pre-Final livery
With just 116,379 seconds or so to go until the Champions League Final kicks-off in Munich
tomorrow evening (k/o 19:45 BST), we thought it high time to get some scores on the doors - even
the llama's had his say for Christ's sake.
