Eric Black
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
- 125
- Potential ability
- 145
- Home reputation
- 130
- Current reputation
- 120
- World reputation
- 80
- International appearances
- 2
- 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
- 15
- Hair length code
- 6
- Skin tone code
- 4
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: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen | Player | — | — | Current |
| FC Metz | Player | — | — | Current |
| Celtic | Coach | 1997-09-01 | 1998-06-30 | Ended |
| Celtic | Assistant Manager | 1998-07-01 | 2000-02-10 | Ended |
| Motherwell | Manager | 2001-10-16 | 2002-04-24 | Ended |
| Coventry City | Manager | 2003-12-11 | 2004-05-03 | Ended |
| Birmingham City | Assistant Manager | 2004-07-01 | 2007-11-21 | Ended |
| Wigan Athletic | Assistant Manager | 2007-11-21 | 2009-06-06 | Ended |
| Sunderland | Assistant Manager | 2009-06-06 | 2011-11-30 | Ended |
| Sunderland | Manager | 2011-11-30 | 2011-12-06 | Ended |
| Blackburn Rovers | Assistant Manager | 2012-01-19 | 2012-12-27 | Ended |
| Wigan Athletic | Coach | 2014-07-04 | 2015-06-30 | Ended |
| Rotherham United | Coach | 2015-07-08 | 2015-10-09 | Ended |
| Rotherham United | Assistant Manager | 2015-10-09 | 2016-01-25 | Ended |
| Aston Villa | Assistant Manager | 2016-01-25 | 2016-06-21 | Ended |
| Southampton | Assistant Manager | 2016-06-30 | 2017-07-14 | Ended |
| Southampton | Coach | 2017-07-15 | 2017-12-21 | Ended |
National-team spells
| Nation | Role | From | To | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | Coach | 1996-07-01 | 1997-08-30 | Ended |
Club contract
No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.
Languages
| Language | First language | Proficiency |
|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | — |
Relations and preferences
Liked clubs
| Club | Rating |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen | 90 |
Liked people
| Person | Rating |
|---|---|
| Stephen Roger Bruce | 80 |
| Alistair Murdoch McCoist | 75 |
| — | 75 |
| Gary McAllister | 70 |
| — | 50 |
Disliked people
| Person | Rating |
|---|---|
| Tetchi Jores Charlemagne Ulrich Okore | 75 |
Other relations
| Target type | Target | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| nation | England | 100 |
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.