Alf’s magnificent success initially in year recalled (6)

'alf's' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'magnificent success initially in year recalled' is the wordplay.
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'recalled' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (to recall can mean to bring something back).
The first letters of 'magnificent success' is 'ms'.
'year' written backwards gives 'raey'.
'ms' going into 'raey' is 'RAMSEY'.

Can you help me to learn more?