The Dutch entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, a country number entitled Calm after the Storm, will be the third last to be performed in Saturday’s final.

The song, performed by The Common Linnets, is now being tipped as a potential winner by the bookies, after first being derided in the Dutch media. In total 26 countries are represented in the final.

First given as a 250-to-1 potential winner before the semi-finals, Calm before the Storm now generates odds of 11-to-4, and is considered a close second to the bookies’ favourite Sweden.

British newspaper Metro described the Dutch entry as ‘perhaps the most simple ever seen at the Eurovision Song Contest’. ‘It has just three chords and the first half of the song is shown in a single camera take,’ the paper points out.

The Netherlands last won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975 with the legendary Ding a dong by Teach-In.