Michael James Williamson

  • England
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
98
Potential ability
-65
Home reputation
98
Current reputation
98
World reputation
45
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
4

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
9
Hair length 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

Judging player ability 10
Judging player potential 11
Judging staff ability 7
Tactical knowledge 11
Hardness of training 11
Youngsters 11
Motivating 8
People management 11
Discipline 8
Mind games 2
Determination 13
Versatility 6
Buying players 8
Negotiating 5

14 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 13
Defending 10
Technical 12
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 8
Attacking 13
Defending 10
Technical 12
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 8

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 14
Directness 5
Tempo 10
Width 13
Depth 8
Pressing 15
Flexibility 6
Squad rotation 5
Set pieces 5
Dirtiness allowance 13

10 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flamboyancy.

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.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Torquay United Player 2000-07-01 2001-11-16 Ended
Southampton Player 2001-11-16 2005-05-19 Ended
Torquay United Player 2003-09-15 2003-11-15 Ended
Doncaster Rovers Player 2004-03-28 2004-05-31 Ended
Wycombe Wanderers Player 2004-07-01 — Current
Wycombe Wanderers Player 2005-05-19 2009-01-26 Ended
Watford Player 2009-01-26 2009-09-01 Ended
Portsmouth Player 2009-09-01 2010-01-27 Ended
Newcastle United Player 2010-01-27 2016-01-28 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Player 2015-10-29 2015-12-01 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Player 2016-01-28 2017-06-30 Ended
Oxford United Player 2017-07-26 2018-06-30 Ended
Gateshead Player 2018-08-10 — Current
Gateshead Player / Coach 2019-01-14 2023-10-17 Ended
Milton Keynes Dons Manager 2023-10-17 2024-09-19 Ended
Carlisle United Manager 2024-09-19 2025-02-03 Ended
Rangers Coach 2025-07-03 2025-10-05 Ended

National-team spells

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

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2023-10-16

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Torquay United 25

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1983-11-08
Nationality
England
Birth city
Stoke-on-Trent
Joined current club
2025-10-05

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 9
Ambition 11
Controversy 4
Loyalty 14
Pressure 12
Professionalism 17
Sportsmanship 13
Temperament 15