Mystic meerkats predict it's coming home for England

A mob of "mystic" meerkats who have successfully predicted England's last three victories have given their verdict for the Euro 2020 final: It's coming home.

The creatures have tapped into their apparent psychic powers once again in the build up to Sunday's crunch game against Italy at Wembley.

A zoo keeper planted England and Italy flags in the ground and the meerkats' task was to knock one down. It took them about five minutes to choose England.

Head keeper Sophie Leadbitter said: "The whole zoo team can't wait to see what England can do against Italy on Sunday.

"We're so proud of our group of meerkats.

"We can't quite believe how much attention they've been getting and they're taking it all in their stride.

"Let's hope England can take it the whole way and win on Sunday – the meerkats are on a roll and Gareth Southgate's squad have done amazingly so far."

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The results are in…..

Our mystic meerkats have correctly predicted every #Eng Euro 2020 result since they played Germany in the last-16!

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England will play Italy on Sunday at Wembley in the host nation's first major final since they won the World Cup in 1966.

Animals have been used in the past to predict the outcome of football matches.

A German octopus shot to fame during the 2010 World Cup when he successfully predicted the outcome of eight matches.

He performed his trick by choosing a mussel from one of two boxes bearing the flags of competing nations.