# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lyall
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:42:08.790Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lyall"
name: "John Lyall"
slug: "john-lyall"
description: "John Angus Lyall was an English footballer and manager primarily known for his 34 years at West Ham United. He played for the club as a youth, then as a first-team player before injury cut short his career. He then joined the coaching staff, before becoming the manager of the senior team in 1974. He stayed in that role until 1989. He subsequently went on to manage Ipswich Town from 1990 to 1994."
tagline: "Former professional association footballer and manager (1940-2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/JohnLyall.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1940-02-24"
deathDate: "2006-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.21
  momentum:             17.02327663384064
  historical:           6.181681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E9%87%8C%E7%88%BE"
    title: "約翰·里爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "جون ليال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "جون ليال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyall"
    title: "John Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyall"
    title: "John Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyall"
    title: "John Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%94%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Джон Лаєлл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump