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ED GLEAVE HERE’S the new animal oracle set to take the Euros by storm – Claude The Clairvoyant Cock.
After being discovered by the Daily Star Sunday, he’s made predictions for the group clashes for all home nations.
He lives in London but reckons England will lose to Wales when they play each other on Thursday.
During the 2010 World Cup Paul The Octopus made headlines after it emerged he was able to predict which country was going to win each match.
Talented Paul, from Oberhausen, Germany, had a success rate of 85%.
Our Claude is hoping to pull off a similar stunt now the Euros have kicked off.
We headed to his home at Vauxhall City Farm in south London ahead of the first match on Friday night.
And we grilled the “psy-cock” on how he reckons England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will do.
He predicts England will beat Slovakia and that the Republic of Ireland will thrash Sweden.
But it’s not good news for Northern Ireland because he has foreseen two defeats and a draw for them.
Claude is 18 months old and is said to have come from a “mystic egg”.
Michelle Frank, manager at Vauxhall City Farm, told the Daily Star Sunday: “Chickens have the intelligence of a three-year-old child.
“He is quite clever. Cocks tend to be more intelligent than hens because they are the ones looking out for danger and defending the territory. They have a cunning cleverness.
“He certainly seems interested in the Euros so fingers crossed he’ll do well. He’ll be watching all the games. We’ll put a little telly in his stable. He’ll be all over it.”
At the World Cup in 2014 Michelle attempted to get the farm’s goat Betty to predict match results.
She said: “She didn’t do very well. She was patriotic. She picked England to do well. But after we lost to Italy in the first match she hadn’t got off to a great start.”
Experts claimed Paul The Octopus only got so many results right due to pure luck or an attraction to the colours on certain flags.
But we reckon this cock knows what he’s talking about and could be on the money.