Former Wycombe Wanderers manager Brian Lee has been honoured with a Services to Football Award by the League Managers Association (LMA).

The prize highlights Lee’s contribution to the sport which saw him have a lasting impact on both Wycombe and the wider football community.

Lee managed the Chairboys between 1969 and 1976 when the club were a non-league side competing in the Isthmian League.

He was the club’s first official manager after taking over from a committee which had previously selected the team, and led Wanderers to great success in his seven year tenure.

Four Isthmian titles were secured across five seasons, and Lee also masterminded a charge to the FA Cup third round in 1975 where Wycombe held top-flight Middlesbrough to a 0-0 draw at Loakes Park.

His involvement with Wanderers continued after he left his management role as he took up the position of chairman and oversaw the conversion into a Guarantee company in 1986.

After stepping aside two years later to allow local businessman Ivor Beeks to take over, he took on the full-time role of managing the construction and move to Adams Park in the summer of 1990.

He went on to be Chairman of the Football Conference and President of the Football Conference, and has been recognised for his work on a number of occasions.

The LMA award comes just over a year after he was handed an MBE for his services to football in the 2015 New Year Honours.

Both Gareth Ainsworth and current Blues chairman Andrew Howard were in attendance at the LMA awards dinner in London on Sunday.

Lee’s acknowledgement came one year after Ainsworth had himself been crowned League Two Manager of the Year at the same event.