Mark Atkinson

Staff

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
115
Potential ability
-7
Home reputation
110
Current reputation
110
World reputation
80
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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
14
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
1

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 9 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.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Sunderland Player 2001-07-01 2003-06-30 Ended
Blyth Spartans Player — — Current
Gateshead Player 2004-08-08 2005-08-22 Ended
Bedlington Terriers Player 2005-08-22 — Current
Newcastle Benfield Player — — Current
Sunderland Manager 2016-06-01 2019-08-01 Ended
Newcastle United Coach 2019-08-01 2022-06-30 Ended
Newcastle United Coach 2022-07-01 — Current
Newcastle United Coach 2022-07-01 — Current

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

Joined
2019-08-01
Contract start
2019-08-01
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£1,200

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 688 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2013-07-01

Relations and preferences

No relations or preferences are recorded for this person.

Personal information

Date of birth
1983-11-13
Nationality
England
Birth city
Newcastle
Joined current club
2019-08-01

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.

Adaptability 8
Ambition 12
Controversy 1
Loyalty 17
Pressure 14
Professionalism 9
Sportsmanship 12
Temperament 3