Walter Smith

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability

164

Potential ability

170

Home reputation

163

Current reputation

163

World reputation

130

International appearances

0

Coaching qualification

—

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

The enriched overlay is not loaded for this version, so Football Manager's calculated values are not available.

Appearance

Ethnicity code

1

Hair colour code

6

Skin tone code

6

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

A staff_ability row exists, but none of its 26 values are recorded.

Coaching

A staff_coaching row exists, but none of its 6 values are recorded.

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Marked current: 5 of 13 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.

Club	Role	From	To	Status
Ashfield	Player	—	1966-11-15	Ended
Dundee United	Player	—	—	Current
Dumbarton	Player	—	—	Current
Dundee United	Player	—	—	Current
Dumbarton	Player	—	—	Current
Dundee United	Player	—	—	Current
Dundee United	Player / Coach	1977-06-30	1980-06-30	Ended
Dundee United	Coach	1980-06-30	1986-06-30	Ended
Rangers	Assistant Manager	1986-07-01	1991-04-16	Ended
Rangers	Manager	1991-04-16	1998-05-31	Ended
Everton	Manager	1998-07-01	2002-03-01	Ended
Manchester United	Assistant Manager	2004-03-03	2004-05-30	Ended
Rangers	Manager	2007-01-10	2011-05-30	Ended

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.

Nation	Role	From	To	Status
Scotland	Manager	2004-12-02	2007-01-10	Ended

Club contract

Club

Rangers

Team

—

Joined

—

Contract start

—

Expires

—

Weekly wage

—

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Club	Rating
Everton	20
Dundee United	70
Rangers	100

Disliked clubs

Club	Rating
Celtic	100
Liverpool	70

Liked people

Person	Rating
Alistair Murdoch McCoist	100
—	50
Richard Gough	60
Archibald Knox	100
—	100
Alexander Chapman Ferguson	80
Stuart McCall	80

Disliked people

Person	Rating
Nick Barmby	75
—	75
Alex Nyarko	75
Garry Lawrence John O'Connor	65