The man who played Football Manager for a world record 150 years

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What's the longest you've managed a team for in Football Manager? 10 seasons, 20, 50? Try 154. That's how long Norwich chap Darren Bland (unfortunate surname) managed Fiorentina for - and now he's a Guinness World Record holder for it.
Bland won 151 league titles in that time, and his manager would have been 190 years old if Football Manager 2010 could recognise ages past 100. That's even older than Arsene Wenger! And how much do you think Bland spent on players during that century and a half? £500,000! That's what he said in an accompanying video. Reckons he recouped more than £2bn.
"I was a good manager, good at business," he said. "Buy 'em cheap, sell 'em high; get 'em when they're about 16, get rid of them when they're about 28 - some big team will buy them. And you just invest it all again."
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