GERMAN football fans are baying for ink after Paul the psychic octopus correctly predicted the national team would crash out of the World Cup.

The octopus, born at Weymouth’s Sea Life Park four years ago, has now predicted that Spain will beat Holland in the tournament final.

The invertebrate, living in Oberhausen, Germany, has been making World Cup predictions by picking a mussel out of one of two boxes carrying the flag of each competing nation.

Whichever mussel Paul has chosen first has been taken as its prediction and so far he’s been spot on each time.

Paul predicted Germany would lose against Serbia in the group stage before going on to beat England and Argentina.

His last prediction, that Spain would beat Germany in the semi-finals, was also proved correct.

German football fans are now calling for the eight-tentacled oracle of woe to be cooked and eaten in revenge.

Staff at Paul’s first home, Weymouth Sea Life Park, have called for restraint from football fans who want to turn him into calamari.

The park’s head of animal care, Fiona Smith, said: “I don’t think people should take their team’s defeat out on Paul just because he’s doing what he does best. I hope the suggestion he should be eaten is meant light-heartedly, especially since he is so talented.”