Avid Burnley fan James McDonagh threw his name into the hat and applied for the freshly-voided Blackburn Rovers vacancy on the basis that he once managed a Sunday League side and that he had put in countless hours on Football Manager over the years - the bedrock of any aspiring managerial prankster’s CV - promising to guide the club to "back-to-back relegations".

The reply, supposedly from Blackburn’s much-maligned global advisor Shebby Singh, reportedly read:

"Having checked your application and your credentials from your CV, we would like to shortlist you for the vacancy. We formally invite you to interview."