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Watch Senga the Highland Cow predict Scotland’s chances in the World Cup – and a surprising outcome for England

MOVE OVER, PAUL THE OCTOPUS!

Bookmaker Ladbrokes has teamed up with Senga—a two year old Highland Cow turned psychic pundit. Senga, which is Gaelic for slenderness, is based at Kitchen Coos and Ewes at High Airyolland Farm in Dumfries and Galloway.

Faced with a choice of equally filled feed buckets labelled with the outcomes of Scotland’s Group games, the hairy heifer didn’t hesitate to deliver her verdict and has predicted a classic rollercoaster tournament for the national team, opting for a Scotland win against Haiti, a draw against Morocco, and a loss against powerhouse Brazil. With four points predicted, Senga’s calculations mean Scotland will face a nail-biting wait to see if they progress to the knockout stages.

If they do, Senga has predicted that they will battle through and make it all the way to the quarter-finals.

Senga was also tasked with picking Scotland’s top scorer. Snubbing the front line strikers, she put her hoof down and picked Aston Villa midfielder and captain JOHN McGINN to finish top of the Scots’ scoring charts.

Turning her attention to England, the bolshy bovine predicted the Three Lions would enjoy a strong tournament and make it into the semi-finals, but in a twist that will surprise absolutely nobody north of the border, Senga predicted that the English campaign will end in heartbreak: getting knocked out on penalties.

Neale McQuistin from Kitchen Coos and Ewes said: “We always knew Senga was special, but we didn’t expect her to become a football pundit.

!She’s usually incredibly level-headed, but if she thinks we can take four points from the group, the Tartan Army should start letting themselves believe anything is possible.”

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Alex Apati, PR Manager at Ladbrokes said: “If Scotland make it to the quarter finals and England go out on penalties, then we might see Senga becoming an honorary member of the Tartan Army. 

“We’ve already seen a flurry of bets on an England shootout exit, because if there’s one thing more reliable than a psychic coo, it’s English penalty heartbreak.”

AFTER this morning’s nervy 1 – 0 victory over Haiti it’s so far, so good – Scotland sit proudly at the top of the group! Maybe, just maybe …! – ED.

Nesta’s predictions for 2020

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Bampotto at the double with World Cup predictions

North Edinburgh News’ in-house football pundit Bampotto was on the ball with his World Cup predictions. The Drylaw tipster made just three predictions – and two of the three hit the back of the net: 

BANG: France to win World Cup – GOAL!

BANG: Harry Kane to win the Golden Boot – GOAL!

BANG: England to lose in the Quarter Finals (on penalties) – HIT THE POST! England exceeded the expectations of some pundits by progressing to the semi-finals. They qualified second in the weakest group of all, which fortunately gave them the easier path for progression. They then scraped through their last sixteen game, beating combative Columbia on penalties, before defeating a pedestrian Swedish side in the quarter finals.

With expectations rising, and the pundits deliberating over who England would  to face in the Final, semi-final opponents Croatia were almost irrelevant, a minor inconvenience on England’s relentless progress to glory. Croatia were too old, too small to cope with England’s ‘golden generation’ ….

Unfortunately no-one told the ‘ageing’ Croatians, who came from a goal down send England crashing out of the World Cup …

We look forward to Bampotto’s predictions for the forthcoming league season …

 

World Cup 2018: Allez les Bleus, says Bampotto

BAMPOTTO, Drylaw’s answer to Paul the predicting octopus, runs his eye over this summer’s World Cup hopefuls – and reckons France have the qualities needed to go all the way …  

FRANCE are my tip to win the World Cup. They have a solid spine to the team through Lloris, Umtiti, Pogba and Griezmann, and the players surrounding them are all top quality. There’s the best part of an entire squad not made France’s final 23 that would be in with a realistic chance of winning the tournament.

There’s a stability and togetherness in the squad these days that they’ve sorely missed in previous tournaments. They don’t lose many goals, have potential difference makers all over the pitch, and have plenty of big game experience – for me, they are the team to beat. Continue reading World Cup 2018: Allez les Bleus, says Bampotto