{"id":508,"date":"2026-07-23T03:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/?p=508"},"modified":"2026-07-23T03:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:06:55","slug":"i-can-predict-the-score-of-any-soccer-match-before-kickoff-and-ive-never-been-wrong-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"I can predict the score of any soccer match before kickoff, and I\u2019ve never been wrong. How?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bar erupted with guesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou study the teams\u2019 statistics and calculate the most likely score!\u201d one fan shouted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man in a Spain jersey raised his beer. \u201cNo\u2014she uses the betting odds!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou write down every possible result,\u201d another fan called out. \u201cThen one of them has to be right!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman near the television shook her head. \u201cShe only predicts matches that are fixed!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another fan laughed. \u201cShe waits until the game is over and claims she predicted it beforehand!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bartender listened, amused, then shook her head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNot even close. Looks like you\u2019ll all have to keep paying for your beer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crowd groaned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She smiled and revealed the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBefore kickoff, the score is always zero\u2013zero. Every match begins at zero\u2013zero.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bar erupted with guesses. \u201cYou study the teams\u2019 statistics and calculate the most likely score!\u201d one fan shouted. A man in a \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/?p=508\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryroom.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}