Here are 10 of my favorites in descending order.
10. Paul The Octopus
Has any cephalopod ever made a bigger splash than the eight-armed sage with the flawless World Cup predictions? And what an impact this little inkling had — he incited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to accuse him of spreading “western propaganda and superstition” and even incurred death threats from overly compensating bipodal Germans who were outraged that Herr Paul (who resided in Oberhausen) would pick Spain to beat Die Mannschaft in the semis. Sadly, OctoPaul had no premonition that he would soon sleep with the fishes — his psychic gifts were lost to the world in October, right before he could predict that the English World Cup bid would garner only one vote more than the mythical land of Xanadu. Everyone will honor this legendary prognosticator in his own way, but I, for one, will never eat his cousin, calamari, with quite the same gusto again.
9. The “New” Germany
For decades, I was under the impression that the First Law of Beckenbauerean Thermodynamics demanded that German soccer be efficient and loveless. And dominating. And blond. Read More: http://indepthafrica.com/?p=5476
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