# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phil-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:55:21.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phil-thompson"
name: "Phil Thompson"
slug: "phil-thompson"
description: "Philip Bernard Thompson is an English retired footballer, who played as a defender for Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s. During this time, he also represented the England national football team on 42 occasions, and captained England on six occasions. After retiring as a player, he later served Liverpool as assistant manager and, during the 2001–02 season, acted as caretaker for six months while manager Gérard Houllier was ill. He was a pundit on Soccer Saturday on Sky Sports for 22 years until August 2020, does occasional work as a pundit for TV 2 (Norway), and is a regular Visiting Fellow at the University of Liverpool where he teaches on the Football Industries MBA."
tagline: "English footballer and manager (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phil_Thompson.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1954-01-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.15
  momentum:             2.081290849673203
  historical:           20.74627333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1391981/"
    handle:    "nm1391981"
sources:
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    title: "Філ Томпсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فیل تامپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Thompson"
    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Thompson"
    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
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    title: "Томпсон, Фил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q430706"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4660971"
    title: "Phil Thompson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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