World Cup ‘Psychic’ Cat Has Predicted The Results of Two Matches Correctly So Far

Anyone who lives in planet Earth knows that cats have an inherent ability to look into a person’s soul. Their stares are so deep, you’ll sometimes wonder if they’re also reading your thoughts.

Here, take a look at this.

They’re so mystic, they are considered the king of the Internet. And we’re all admittedly servants of the Internet.

But this year, or to be specific, this World Cup, a cat has risen from out of nowhere and shows us that these cute bastards are just bad boys, but also a species that can predict the future like Andy.

Well, actually, it’s just one cat. But all cats look alike, no?

Meet Achilles, This Year’s Psychic Animal

Since World Cup 2010, there would be one (or even more than one) animal that made headlines for being able to time travel one month later to see the results of the World Cup matches.

Known as “Psychic’ animals”, they sometimes made the headlines more than the players, though their predictions aren’t exactly as accurate as they claimed to be.

Eight years ago, it was Paul the octopus. The psychic not-so-cute-but-not-so-delicious octopus predicted 11 out of 13 matches that involved the host nation Germany correctly. It was so popular, Google even featured it as a Google doodle during World Cup 2014.

In World Cup 2014, there were a few, but none came close to Paul.

This year, everyone’s looking at this cat.

Called Achilles, this Russia cat is chosen because…well, because he is “beautiful”, “deaf and so has a great deal of intuition” and he “sees with his heart”.

Pretty sure that is the best algorithm to predict World Cup results. In fact, Facebook and Instagram should use these markers for their algorithms. So far the algorithms sucked.

The cute white cat didn’t have any history of predicting games (just look at him; you seriously think that cat gives a damn?) – prior to World Cup 2018, he lived in a museum to keep it free of rodents. In other words, he’s a high-SES security guard who has now been put into the limelight because he’s…beautiful.

But hey, it turns out that Achilles is psychic after all.

So far, that is.

Predicted the First Match Correctly

In the opening match between Russia and Saudi Arabia, Achilles was put to the test, in which two bowls of food with the countries’ respective flags were placed on each bowl.

Achilles chose Russia.

Now, do take note of this: In June 2018, Russia’s FIFA ranking is 70 while Saudi Arabia’s ranking is 67. In other words, Saudi Arabia could have been the favourites, though Russia do have the home advantage.

Well, Russia didn’t just win. They trashed Sauda Arabia with five goals. If you’re not familiar with football, here’s some context: five goals is a lot of goals. You can usually only see these kind of results in S-League. Or Singapore Premier League. Or whatever.

Did an Andy and Predicted the Second Match Correctly, Too

Well, just yesterday, psychic cat Andy – I mean, Achilles, did an Andy again.

He chose Iran over Morocco, and Iran won by one goal. Then again, this is a pretty clear-cut choice but still.

The cat is powderful.

Not sure about you, but white cats suddenly look so much deeper than usual.

However, remember: it’s just a game

If there’s a takeaway from this, here’s it: I hoping that soon, Achilles would predict wrongly. After all, it’s all games, and if Achilles can predict the results as well as Paul or Andy, we might as well just stop the games and just give the World Cup to England.

(No, Achilles the cat didn’t hint that England would win: I did)

Now you know what Singaporeans are talking about today; do check back tomorrow for another piece of news of the day!