I can top that, good as it is. I was instrumental in helping Davide Somma take part trials at QPR and Leeds, I picked him up at Heathrow from Tampa and he stayed with us for a week before heading up to Leeds where for a while he had a huge impact before getting really bad injury. My mate was his agent and I was helping him out, Somma had played in Italy before joining San Jose Earthquakes, he had been released and was looking for a new club.
My son Stephen was 16 at the time and enthralled at the thought of a professional footballer staying with us, the minute David walked in he said 'do you play FIFA, what team are you going to be'? Davide 'Perugia, I played for them, what about you?' San Jose Earthquakes' said Stephen, Somma burst out laughing!
Lo and behold when they put the squad up Somma was still in it, I think Motson was commentating, Stephen kept giving the ball to 'Somma' who went on run after run but kept booting the ball over the bar, it was a surreal scene, Somma in our lounge watching himself on FIFA and playing like a tvvat. Then Stephen looked Davide in the eye and with a straight face said 'You're crap, no wonder you can't get a contract'!
To be fair to Somma he cracked up and couldn't stop laughing.