If you're as obsessive about football and gaming as most of us here in the JOE office, you've probably spent a *long* time on one save of Football Manager.
You know the type. You started out in 2003 and suddenly the game is in the 2020s and your star striker has long since retired and gone into coaching.
Sure, people might say the game's unrealistic, but when it comes to unlikely players moving over to the management side of things it can be closer to real life than we'd care to admit.
Case in point:
Belgium have appointed Thierry Henry as Roberto Martinez's assistant manager. If you think it's weird, it kinda is. Not 'Hernan Crespo managing Chesterfield' weird (seriously, it happened on one of our saves), but it's close.
It's the sort of thing you'd come across in - oh, we don't know - a certain football management simulation game, perhaps.
What's that, you noticed too?
https://twitter.com/Fraser_Clarke/status/769114796763537408
https://twitter.com/psalms_black/status/769117029106327553
https://twitter.com/JackToohey94/status/769117151869431808
https://twitter.com/walsh_i/status/769117279573381121
https://twitter.com/FindingCotton/status/769117298372247552
It's a joke that works the same in many different languages.
https://twitter.com/eivindho/status/769117702187253765
https://twitter.com/HeberPrincipe/status/769119308119179264
Mostly English, though.
https://twitter.com/dputtock1986/status/769118896674762752
It makes a change from those folk who always use their own Football Manager CV in job applications, and we're tempted to say the Belgian FA's decision is a sly dig at that lad from your uni lectures who decided 'this'll be really funny'.
We wonder if this will cheer up Romelu Lukaku, who didn't seem too pleased at the appointment of Martinez a few weeks back.
https://twitter.com/7DeuIofeu/status/761129706007715840
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