Saw this thread while spying on Redcafe. Essentially, it's things you know aren't true but can't help believing them anyway.

http://www.redcafe.net/threads/weird-feelings-of-football.394757/

Czech Republic national team ceased to exist

Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg are the same team

Villarreal doesn't have an away kit

With the exception of Ghana every African teams home kit has some orange, green or red in it.

90% of teams from Russia have Moscow in their name.

Getafe and Levante are the same team, as is every team in France outside Lille, Monaco, PSG, Marseille and Lyon.

Robbie Keane and Shane Long are the same person.

The African Cup of Nations happens every year.

Every league 1 striker over the age of 30 has played for at least 8 different clubs.

For a winger to be world class he must play on the side opposite to what his best foot is.

Antonio Valencia last delivered a successful cross in March 1997.

There are like twenty players named Diarra in European football, and they are all black, have shaved heads and are defensive midfielders..

Osasuña is a ghost team. They have been in La Liga from 2000 to 2014 but no one has any idea of what their kit, stadium looks like

Mark van Bommel has never been booked in his career despite committing a red card offense in every match.

Arminia Bielefeld isn't a real team from a city that doesn't actually exist.

Any half decent player nearing retirement is a legend.

Aaron Lennon is still a good young prospect.

That every other week Celtic are playing either Aberdeen, Inverness or Dundee.

John Terry will always be in the Champions League Team of the Season, even if Chelsea are competing in the Europa League.

Stoke have never played a home game that wasn't in rainy conditions.

When Chelsea was founded, John Obi Mikel just appeared and stayed ever since.

Fulham is still in the PL.

Every year, there is at least one team in the Euro League from a made-up city.

Every prediction Pele makes goes horribly wrong.

Fiorentina, Udinese, Napoli and Lazio are all kind of interchangeable.

No one has ever done an overhead clearance in the history of football, despite it happening 7 times a game on fifa.

Brentford have won League One 5 years in a row.

Podolski's in his thirties.

Michael Owen had a great career.

Matt Le Tissier has the head of a horse.

Mesut Özil is shorter than Aaron Ramsey.

Every other team in England still plays 4-4-2

The 2010 World Cup didn't have a final.

Newcastle won the league in the 90s

Bari is a team in Indonesia

Serbia and Montenegro are still together

Levante, Elche, Grenada, Getafe etc all the relegation fodders of La Liga are the same.

Cesc, Ronaldo, Messi are in their early 20s

Clrnc wrote:

Bari is a team in Indonesia

😆

"Villarreal doesn't have an away kit" 😆

All the bad decisions always go against your team

Rival teams always score a lucky one right at the end - typical

Arteta is like 37

barcelona play getafe every other week

certain players, no matter how shite, are more up for screwing over arsenal than any other club

teams are always ultra, ultra clinical when they play us, but wasteful when playing shite teams

shola ameobi always looks decent when i watch him play, despite his dire reputation

an iberian team has won the europa league every year since it's inception

messi mentally retired in 2013

Like Diarra, there was one point when there seemed to be a Cisse or Traore in every team too.

Van Nistelrooy never scored a goal for United without a Beckham assist.

Every eastern European team in the CL has a Brazilian striker, as well as at least half the teams at international tournaments having a nationalised Brazilian player, usually a striker.

All Brazilians only have one name.

Steed Malbranque is in his late 30s

Rennes and Nice are the same club

Facundo Sava and Louis Saha are the same player.

Gignac and Giroud are the same player.

Ibrahimovic has won the CL.

Southampton develops every British player.

Opposition goalies always have their game of the season against us then go back to being crap.

Players will always score against their former team "just to make a point".

as players become successful at arsenal, the more rubbish they become for their national team

Ancelotti has never won a league title.

Ian Wright has been forgotten as an Arsenal legend.

Thuram is Malcom X

Real Madrid have only been a big club since 1997

Manchester Utd did not exsist before 1992

Guy Roux is still the manager of Auxerre

Eric Cantona never played for France

Heh heh.

Barcelona have always been a big club.

Robbie Keane is Roy Keanes brother.

Alfonso wrote:

Ancelotti has never won a league title.

Ian Wright has been forgotten as an Arsenal legend.

Thuram is Malcom X

Real Madrid have only been a big club since 1997

Manchester Utd did not exsist before 1992

Guy Roux is still the manager of Auxerre

Eric Cantona never played for France

So true 😆

You are brilliant at this.

Wenger is still interested in signing Mexes, Gouffran, Essien...and most importantly Kalou.

Obafemi Martins is still under 20 years old.

Harry Redknapp is only ever seen in the dugout or in his 4x4.

Park Ji-Sung's only goals for Man U were against us.

80% of Newcastle's league games are at home.