Coleraine FC fan Andrea Lai has traveled over 1,000 miles from Italy to Northern Ireland to watch his adopted team play in the flesh. Lai has been playing Football Manager for almost 20 years and chose Coleraine FC as his new team to manage. He has been playing with the club in Football Manager since 2019 and has won a heap of virtual silverware since. Lai's trip was 'wonderful' and 'enormous' to him as he had been considering coming to watch the team play for many years but it was too far. He decided to come by himself and enjoyed some of the great landscapes in Northern Ireland, but the main reason was to watch the team play against Glentoran. Coleraine FC have been regular fixtures at the top end of the NIFL Premiership in recent years and have won the league title in Northern Ireland once, in 1973, as well as six Irish Cups and two League Cups. The team have been taken over and a 24-year-old local property developer has become its new majority owner. Lai started playing with the club in Football Manager as a semi-professional outfit and fell in love with the team. He has been playing with the club ever since and has won many virtual trophies with them.