When we were kids we used to do football quizzes about the english football league. Every now and again the question 'Who is the only non english team to win the FA Cup? The answer is Cardiff but a mate of mine always always would say Walsall, he thought it was Warsaw in Poland not Walsall near Birmingham.
A childhood belief about sport

others believed things like this
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I thought that the song "Hands off she's mine" by The English Beat was actually saying "Anton, she's my aunt"— Nate
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish
- When I was little, I used to believe that football players really had shoulders that big.— Angie
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon
- When I was a kid, I used to think that the only way you could play football was if you had giant shoulders.— Sam