Paul Simpson
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
- 110
- Potential ability
- 125
- Home reputation
- 110
- Current reputation
- 110
- World reputation
- 55
- International appearances
- 0
- Coaching qualification
- 1
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.
Appearance
- Ethnicity code
- 0
- Hair colour code
- 2
- Hair length code
- 5
- Skin tone code
- 5
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: 1 of 17 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.
| Club | Role | From | To | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester City | Player | — | 1988-10-31 | Ended |
| Oxford United | Player | 1988-10-31 | 1992-02-20 | Ended |
| Derby County | Player | 1992-02-20 | 1997-10-10 | Ended |
| Sheffield United | Player | 1996-12-06 | 1997-01-06 | Ended |
| Wolverhampton Wanderers | Player | 1997-10-10 | 2000-08-11 | Ended |
| Walsall | Player | 1998-09-17 | 1999-01-11 | Ended |
| Blackpool | Player | 2000-08-11 | 2002-03-25 | Ended |
| Rochdale | Player | 2002-03-25 | 2003-08-07 | Ended |
| Rochdale | Player / Manager | 2002-05-29 | 2003-08-07 | Ended |
| Carlisle United | Player | 2003-08-07 | — | Current |
| Carlisle United | Player / Manager | 2003-08-07 | 2006-06-19 | Ended |
| Preston North End | Manager | 2006-06-19 | 2007-11-13 | Ended |
| Shrewsbury Town | Manager | 2008-03-12 | 2010-04-30 | Ended |
| Stockport County | Manager | 2010-07-12 | 2010-01-04 | Ended |
| Northwich Victoria | Manager | 2012-02-01 | 2012-02-24 | Ended |
| Derby County | Assistant Manager | 2013-09-30 | 2015-06-28 | Ended |
| Newcastle United | Coach | 2015-07-02 | 2016-03-11 | Ended |
National-team spells
Club contract
No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.
Languages
No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.
Relations and preferences
Liked clubs
| Club | Rating |
|---|---|
| Manchester City | 60 |
| Carlisle United | 90 |
| Derby County | 50 |
Disliked clubs
| Club | Rating |
|---|---|
| Preston North End | 50 |
Liked people
| Person | Rating |
|---|---|
| — | 100 |
| Stephen McClaren | 100 |
| — | 90 |
| Stuart Delaney | 75 |
| Russ Richardson | 75 |
| Dave Timmins | 75 |
| — | 60 |
| Jamie Hoyland | 60 |
| Paul Murray | 60 |
| Craig Jonathan Short | 50 |
Disliked people
| Person | Rating |
|---|---|
| — | 80 |
| — | 60 |
| — | 25 |
| Alan Lord | 25 |
Personal information
Personality
Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.