Aaron Wilbraham has little issue with playing the father figure at his current club Rochdale.
The 40-year-old has enjoyed a long career in football that began when he made his debut for Stockport in 1997. He had to wait just two weeks for his first goal, scoring early on in a 4-1 defeat to Manchester City - the club he supported as a boy.
Some 23 years later, he's still playing football and still among the goals. In fact, his equaliser against Newcastle in their FA Cup third round meeting at the beginning of January put him among an exclusive group of players to have scored in four different decades.
"I wasn't aware of it at all," he told Sporting Life on a bitterly cold Monday morning at Rochdale's training ground.
"When I heard it, it didn't really make sense and then I realised that I scored on my debut in '98, then the '00s, '10s and the '20s.
"It was crazy when I started hearing that fact after the game. People started messaging me - it's madness.
"I think (Zlatan) Ibrahimovic did it on Saturday, a week later, so yeah, crazy.
"Wilbrahimovic beat Ibrahimovic by a week!"