The studio director of the developer Sports Interactive, Miles Jacobson has bee awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours List.

Jacobson is known as one of the creators of the series back in the ninties before it was re-created as the Football Manager series when and parted ways.

He wrote on the Sports Interactive forums: "Thank you to all those [who have congratulated me). It really is very humbling, and is further recognition for the whole SI team around the world. I'm a bit lost for words at the moment, so I'll leave it at that for now."

SI co-founder Oliver Collyer said: "We think this is very much deserved for all the hard work involved in not only establishing a good sense of business to a raw and young Sports Interactive all those years ago, but also evolving the studio into an equal and more professional partner with its publisher and also a responsible one, via the involvement with various charities, as well as taking away the things we don't like doing to allow us to concentrate on coding. The honour is also deserved recognition for lots of other work Miles has done away from SI over the years on the games committee, Develop advisory board and as a founding trustee of GamesAid as well as many other advisory committees."

Thanks MCV.

By Ewan Aiton