Roaring success at Euros for 'psychic' Thai lion

Boy, a five-year-old white lion, lunges at a piece of meat hanging under the flag of Scotland, instead of the piece under the England flag, set up to see the big cat "predict" the outcome of Euro 2020 matches at Khon Kaen Zoo in Khon Kaen in northeast Thailand on June 18, 2021.- AFP

BANGKOK, June 19, 2021 (AFP): Move over Paul the Octopus, Thailand has a new claimant to the football forecasting crown: Boy the "psychic" lion, who has so far correctly called four Euro 2020 matches.

Boy, a five-year-old white lion who lives at a zoo in northeast Thailand, makes his predictions by grabbing meat marked with national flags from a wire above his pen.