Every Christmas is flush with predictions about the year to come. Instead, The Huffington Post UK looks back at predictions people made about and during 2014 which they probably would rather they hadn't.
The Worst Predictions of 2014
Scots would 'comfortably' vote No(01 of07)
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Football was coming home(02 of07)
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Democrats would do ok in the mid-term elections(03 of07)
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Brazil would win 'that' game(04 of07)
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Progress towards ending Syria's civil war(05 of07)
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We'd all die because of Barack Obama's incompetence!(06 of07)
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We'd all fall in love with Google Plus(07 of07)
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