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.

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
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: 3 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 2003-06-30 2004-08-08 Ended
Gateshead Player 2004-08-08 2005-08-22 Ended
Bedlington Terriers Player 2005-08-22 2012-07-01 Ended
Newcastle Benfield Player 2012-07-01 — 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
2022-07-01
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