Private Eye recordings rights to all the Private Eye recordings produced from 1962-1980 and arranged for the commercial release of the first ten flexi-discs on a 12" vinyl album to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Private Eye magazine in October 1981. The album - titled " Private Eye Presents Golden Satiricals [The Top Ten Flexi-Discs!]" was released on Lewis' Springtime Records label, distributed by Island Records. The release included a facsimile of the first-ever issue of Private Eye. In 1998, the flexi-discs album was reissued by Springtime Records as a double audio-cassette set distributed by MCI (Music Collection International) - with the
Football Manager Live same match engine and many of their fundamental concepts. Users were assigned to a "Game World" of up to 1000 players and created their club and filled their squad with real players, similar to fantasy football. Players were signed via a proxy bidding system similar to that of eBay with the player signing with the highest-bidding club. Whilst "Football Manager Live" utilised a very similar database to that of Football Manager 2009, like its offline counterpart, ageing players retired and younger players were randomly generated in their place within each game world, creating an increasingly fictional environment as seasons progress.