Guy Whittingham

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Guy Whittingham : biography

10 November 1964 –

Guy Whittingham

As a player he was a striker from 1988 until 2005, notably in the Premier League for Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday. Having started his career with non-league Yeovil Town he went on to play in the Football League for Portsmouth, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Watford, Peterborough United, Oxford United and Wycombe Wanderers. He amassed over 450 appearances throughout his career.

Management & coaching career

Whittingham later went on to become player-manager of Newport Isle of Wight, but left them in May 2005 when the club ran into financial difficulties. He returned to management at AFC Newbury but when that club suffered financial difficulties and the loss of their ground, Whittingham left in June 2006. In August 2006 he took up a coaching role at Eastleigh. In January 2009, he joined the Portsmouth first-team coaching staff as development coach.

He was named joint caretaker manager of Portsmouth together with Stuart Gray on 14 October 2011, when Steve Cotterill left to become manager of Nottingham Forest. The next day the pair won their first game in charge against Barnsley 2–0 at Fratton Park.

Whittingham once again became caretaker manager of the south coast club following Michael Appleton leaving to take the vacant position at Blackpool, and stayed as caretaker until the club exited administration in April 2013, with his full-time appointing imminent.

Playing career

Born in Evesham, after leaving the British Army, he spent the majority of his career at Portsmouth where he scored 99 times in 173 league appearances, including Pompey’s all-time scoring record”Portsmouth, from Tindall to Ball” Farmery, C: Southend-on-Sea, Desert Island Books, 1999 ISBN 1-874287-25-2 of 42 league goals in the 1992–3 season (48 in all competitions) as the club missed out on automatic promotion to the Premier League on goals scored. He was known while at Fratton Park as "Corporal Punishment". Afterwards he played in the Premiership for Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday, proving to be very popular at the Owls. He later returned to Portsmouth in 1999, where his 7 goals in 9 matches helped the club avoid relegation to the third tier.

In the 2000–01 season, his last as a professional, he scored for three different clubs, notching for Peterborough (against Oldham Athletic), Oxford United (against Swindon Town) and Wycombe Wanderers (against Bristol City). He also featured in Wycombe’s FA Cup semi final against Liverpool. This was the second time that Whittingham had been denied in an FA Cup semi final by the Merseyside team, having lost in a penalty shootout to Liverpool whilst at Portsmouth in 1992.

Managerial statistics

Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Portsmouth 7 November 2012 Present
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