Popular Football Manager content creator eyes Harborough Town for FM27 glory

Following their historic promotion to Enterprise National League North, the Bees will feature in Football Manager 27 and a popular content creator has already expressed a desire to take to the Beehive dugout. At least virtually.

Kevin Chapman, who makes Football Manager videos under the YouTube name ‘Lollujo’ for his 203,000 subscribers, has confirmed he will choose to manage the Bees as part of his ‘Non-League to Legend’ series in FM27.

For those not familiar with Lollujo and his well-liked series, in FM26 he took National League North side Bedford Town all the way up to fourth in Sky Bet League Two before continuing his career with other clubs up the leagues.

All the way up to the final Bedford episode, Lollujo was attracting tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of viewers. He’s likely to do the same again with Harborough next season.

When taking to social media platform X to confirm his decision to choose the Bees, Lollujo saw his post shared by Harborough’s official account.

Bees midfielder Danny Newton then commented, saying: “Great choice.”

Austin, who a fortnight ago signed a new deal to stay at Harborough until June 2029, recently told BBC Leicester that he played Football Manager “all through my youth”.

The Borough boss used to love taking on the challenge of managing clubs in the Conference North or South and guiding them up the divisions.

Now, real life is a much tougher challenge than the game, but Austin can finally live his dream of coaching in step two after years of doing it on a computer screen.

Lollujo, taking on the virtual version of the challenge, will be just as eager to lead Harborough to glory in FM27.