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Brazil still has it as far as honor goes, at least on the pitch, they haven’t won by hook or crook like some other teams have done in the World Cup.

Except when they defeated the USA in 1994, can't forget that.

Good to see Nate Silver taken down a peg as well.

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Nate Silver's failure as celebrated as Brazil's collapse

The world may still be reeling from last night’s World Cup semi-Final between Germany and Brazil, but none more so than Nate Silver the celebrated statistician behind the fivethiryeight blog. Silver had pegged Brazil as the favourites to win the cup and stated their chances of success against Germany last night at 65%.