Not, certainly, in terms of background, ability, application, success or athleticism. Nor indeed in terms of discipline, vision and self-belief.

Nor earnings power.

Nor fame.

Nor potential.

Nor, er, records.

Nor .., anyway, that’s enough truth for now.

But the thing is, we do have one thing in common, which is that we have correctly predicted a sporting event.

My prediction - and I’ll try and keep this short - happened the day before the 1988 FA Cup final when, making a first visit to the Snowley Parade betting shop with the coloured ribbons over its open doorway, I decided that Wimbledon would beat the favourites Liverpool 1-0 through a goal from Lawrie Sanchez.

I was only able to bet on Sanchez to score the first goal but otherwise I backed my hunch and every detail came true. I won hundreds of pounds on a £10 bet.

Soon afterwards I decided to get more money from the Snowley Parade cashpoint. I mean, why not? If it’s there waiting for you?

I put another tenner on West Ham United to beat Norwich City in the League Cup semi-final. They lost.

But while reality, thankfully, balanced my initial dreams of having special powers, I have still not forgotten the wondrousness of that first prediction and its outcome.

Hughes has been making predictions about his own sporting efforts in the space of the last month.

After breaking Linford Christie’s 1993 British men’s 100m record in running 9.83sec at the New York City Grand Prix, the 27-year-old Anguilla-born athlete revealed he had woken up from a dream the previous morning with 9.83 on his mind, and that he had written the time down - later tweeting the evidence.

"When I looked at the clock and saw 9.83," he said, "I was like: 'What just happened there!' It actually came through. Manifestation is real.”

If that was not remarkable enough, he was able to announce the same thing yesterday after lowering the British 200m record to 19.73 at the London Diamond League meeting in front of a sell-out 50,000 crowd in the stadium which had hosted athletics at the 2012 Olympics in London.

Despite having spoken cautiously in the previous day’s press conference about his prospects of setting a new national record, Hughes revealed after the race that he had written down another predicted mark that morning - 19.73.

And, again, tweeted the evidence.

Of course, Hughes could have prepared pages of his notebook for a range of different outcomes ahead of each of those races and simply jettisoned the others. But I severely doubt it.

Hughes has already had a dramatic career, embracing highs - and lows.

You can only hope for his sake he didn’t wake up with any premonitory dreams as he prepared for the Rio 2016 Olympics - which he was forced to miss after tearing his right knee ligament in a fall.

Or indeed ahead of the Tokyo 2020 men’s 100m final, where he was disqualified for a false start.

Or indeed ahead of the Tokyo 2020 men’s 4x100m relay final, where he was part of the British team that won silver behind Italy. And which later lost its medals following a positive doping test returned by one of its number, C J Ujah.

Hughes is far from the first athlete to have made bold predictions about times; but one of the very few to have come up with the goods. Exactly. And surely one of even fewer to have done so, to the nearest hundredth of a second, twice.

Maybe the only one.

Whatever the case I fancy he could make himself a fair bit of extra training money if he put his remarkable mind to it…

That said - a cautionary tale.

During the FIFA 2018 World Cup an octopus caught by a fisherman in the Japanese coastal town of Obira made a name for itself - the name being "Rabio" - by correctly predicting all three of Japan’s Group H results.

Placed in a plastic pool and encouraged to pick one of three boxes representing a win, loss, or draw for the national team, the soft-bodied mollusc correctly tipped them to beat Colombia in their opening match.

It went on to complete a perfect record by predicting Japan’s subsequent draw with Senegal and defeat by Poland as they narrowly qualified as group runners-up.

"I'm glad that all the forecasts turned out correct and Japan moved on to the knockout stage," the fisherman, Kimo Abe, told Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shim.

Sadly for our soft-bodied mollusc, however, all this magical predictive power proved insufficient to save it from being taken to market, sold and turned into seafood - without even being given a crack at saying how Japan would get on in their round-of-16 match against the strongly fancied Belgian team.

Abe attempted to maintain the forecasting flow by introducing another captured octopus, rather unimaginatively named "Rabio Jr", to the task of foretelling Japan’s next match.

Upon consideration, Rabio Jr said they would win. They lost.

Which just goes to show that the prediction business is something only gifted individuals, such as Zharnel Hughes and Rabio the Original Octopus, can operate in with success.