Jacobson first came to Vicarage Road for his seventh birthday. " Each week, Jacobson would be dropped at the corner of Vicarage Road, where he’d meet up with the household. We meet in a grubby cafe, a few hundred metres from Vicarage Road, home to Watford FC, of which Football Manager is now a sponsor (the game’s brand is stitched into the leather head rests of every luxurious seat on the bench). The disparity between Jacobson’s residence and school life, however, drove him further into soccer. “I wanted to assist my local staff