Albert Sewell, a legendary football statistician has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's birthday honours list for his services to the beautiful game.
Sewell had a long-standing career in journalism stemming back from his days as a 16-year old with the Daily Sketch. He then went on to bigger and better things which ended with the last 37 years under employment by the BBC
His role involves providing notes, facts and statistics to the production and presentation teams ahead of each match.
"My role is to back up the commentators and presenters and make them even better," Albert told the MOTD website.
"So I closely check their scripts and pick up on any mistakes.
"I also supply notes with facts and figures about every Premiership game, team, players, managers, records and so on."
Amazingly all of Sewell's work is produced on a typewriter, and he has 30 years' worth of notes dotted around his house, shed and garage it has emerged.
Sewell has since retired from his job with the BBC although John Motson wants him to carry on his good work for his own personal work.
"For 30 years now, every week I've received Albert's notes - six pages of editorial gold dust," said Motson.
"What am I going to do without them? I'm going to approach Albert secretly and ask him to go on doing them, just for me!
"Happy retirement Albert, but you haven't quite finished yet!"
And you thought commentators like Motty spend hours and weeks doing thier research, allowing him to randomly call upon facts from any era of the game, when all along, they were produced by someone else to make him look good.
Congratulations to Albert Sewell on his MBE and may he have a happy retirement!