A video game fanatic who travelled more than 1,000 miles for a football match achieved his "dream" of seeing his adopted club play in the flesh on Saturday.
Italian Andrea Lai has been playing the Football Manager series for almost 20 years and one day chose Coleraine Football Club, at random, as his new team to manage.
Last week, Lai traveled from Italy to Northern Ireland to see the Bannsiders play their final league game of the season as they pipped Glentoran to second place and a European spot.
He had first played as the club seven years ago and has won a heap of virtual silverware since.
Lai is from Imola in Italy and supports Bologna alongside Coleraine.
The 39 year old, who travelled alone, said his trip to Northern Ireland was "wonderful".
"Astonishing - it was enormous to me because for many years I was considering coming, but it was too far," he told BBC News NI.
"I decided to come by myself. I enjoyed some of the great landscapes in Northern Ireland, but the main reason, really, it was the Saturday match against Glentoran, and then I built my trip based on it."
His love for the club started when he "randomly selected" the team which has since gone from semi to professional status.
"I start playing with this non-pro team and I totally fell in love for it. The part-time contract, all the players, and bringing them to success, winning the premiership, winning the Irish Cup, and bringing Coleraine in the European competition was awesome."
"I started purchasing items from the online shop," he added.
Through this he got to know people involved in the club and, last month, made the decision to come to the last game of the league season.
And success beckoned for his adopted club as they qualified for European football for the first time since 2022.
Lai got to meet players and staff including hat-trick hero Will Patching and his physical counterpart, the real Coleraine manager Ruaidhri Higgins.
With European football secured for next season, Lai said he "cannot miss this kind of opportunity" to watch the club live again.
He said he could not attend previous European matches in San Marino and Slovenia.
"I'm already looking forward to our next year to come."
As Coleraine prepare for their Irish Cup final against Dungannon Swifts this weekend, Lai said he thinks the club have "a very good possibility to win the game".
"I will find a way to follow the game, to follow Coleraine even out in Italy."
He joked that he is "probably the very first Italian supporter" of the club and that he will keep the memories made on his trip "all lifelong".