{"id":141602,"date":"2018-06-15T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/world-cup-2018-mystic-micro-pig-chooses-semi-finalists\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:30:12","slug":"world-cup-2018-mystic-micro-pig-chooses-semi-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/world-cup-2018-mystic-micro-pig-chooses-semi-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2018: Mystic micro pig chooses semi-finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mystic Marcus makes his choices\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/CAAB\/production\/_102038815_mpm_psychicpig_predicts_world_cup_12.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Mercury Press<figcaption>Image caption                                      Mystic Marcus ate 28 apples, with flags of each nation, and left four which it is claimed will make the semi-finals                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A pig with &quot;special powers&quot; has chosen the four nations that will reach the World Cup semi-finals - and England is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Mystic Marcus, a micro pig from Heage, Derbyshire, chose Belgium, Argentina, Nigeria and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>He did it by eating apples marked with the flags of all the other teams.<\/p>\n<p>He correctly predicted the outcome of the 2014 Fifa World Cup, the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump&#039;s election, said owner Juliette Stevens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>East Midlands Live: Swingers club members need childcare help; LadBaby named &#039;celebrity dad of the year&#039; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The pig breeder said: &quot;Marcus is the seventh child of a seventh child and apparently they&#039;re gifted with special powers, so maybe that&#039;s where it comes from.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Stevens has about 100 animals on her farm, but Marcus holds a &quot;special place in her heart&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Mercury Press<figcaption>Image caption                                      Mystic Marcus has &quot;special powers&quot; said his owner                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said: &quot;He&#039;s got a lovely personality, he&#039;s totally unfazed by all the fuss. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#039;s really chilled out and happy to go and do stuff. He takes it all in his stride.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>You may also like:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#039;Mad fan&#039; shows support with giant flag<\/li>\n<li>Childcare woe for club&#039;s swingers<\/li>\n<li>Government backs police dog law change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, despite the breeder&#039;s claim of a &quot;100% success rate&quot; Mystic Marcus has slipped up a few times.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the micro pig backed Derby County to beat Hull City in the Championship play-off semi-final after choosing the apples with the club&#039;s badge. The Rams lost 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>However, they did win the second leg 2-0. Maybe that is what he meant?<\/p>\n<p>Also, the teams he has predicted to make the World Cup semi-finals could not all get to the last four without at least two of the sides meeting in one of the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a chance he could choose the winner - in 2010, during the World Cup Finals in South Africa, an octopus named Paul correctly predicted the winners of eight matches, including the eventual winner Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Mercury PressImage caption Mystic Marcus ate 28 apples, with flags of each nation, and left four which it is claimed will make the semi-finals A pig with &quot;special<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}