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If you can believe “Wired” magazine (and you’ll ignore it at your peril), Brazil will beat Serbia in the World Cup final in a month’s time.

So I’ll have to look for something else to do, rather than being stuck in front of gogglebox, day in and day out.

They’ve worked all this out by algorithmising population, GDP per capita and experience and spitting out a Goal Difference factor which is supposedly decisive in deciding who wins and who takes an early shower.

So New Zealand will survive the group stage and get stuffed by the Netherlands in the first knockout match.

England will beat Slovenia and Algeria and meet Germany in the 8th finals.

“Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.” Gary Lineker

Germany will meet (and lose to) Brazil (who will previously have eliminated the Netherlands) in the semis.

There’s only one fly in the ointment.

Anyone who’s recently seen a Netherlands game won’t believe this for a minute…..