Yeovil Town
Which team did the player Guy Whittingham belong to from 1988 to 1989?
Guy Whittingham Guy Whittingham ( born 10 November 1964 ) is an English former professional footballer and a manager . He was caretaker manager of Football League Two side Portsmouth from November 2012 until April 2013 when he took the role on a permanent basis before being sacked by Portsmouth in November 2013 . On 13 December 2013 , he was appointed assistant manager at Crawley Town . 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 . Playing career . Born in Evesham , after leaving the British Army , he joined Waterlooville for the start of the 1987–88 season where , after two games for the reserves , he was quickly promoted to the first team and became the clubs top goalscorer in the 1987–88 season . One of his goals came in the first round proper of the F.A.Cup against Aylesbury United . He then spent a season at Yeovil Town before , in the summer of 1989 , he was signed by Portsmouth , where he then spent the majority of his career , scoring 99 times in 173 league appearances , including Pompeys all-time scoring record of 42 league goals in the 1992–93 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 . In 1993 he signed for Aston Villa in the Premier League . He had a good run in the team and scored important goals against Everton , Arsenal and Sheffield United , before leaving on loan in February 1994 to join Wolverhampton Wanderers ; this meant he missed out on Villas victory in the 1994 Football League Cup Final . In December 1994 he joined Sheffield Wednesday , proving to be very popular at the Owls . Whilst at Wednesday he had a second loan spell at Wolves , as well as being loaned to Watford and Portsmouth who he would later rejoin permanently in 1999 . At Portsmouth during his loan spell his seven goals in nine matches helped the club avoid relegation to the third tier . In the 2000–01 season , his last as a professional , he scored for three clubs , notching for Peterborough United ( against Oldham Athletic ) , Oxford United ( against Swindon Town ) and Wycombe Wanderers ( against Bristol City ) . He also featured in Wycombes 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 . Management and coaching career . Whittingham later went on to become player-manager of Newport ( IOW ) , 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 . On 25 November 2013 , Whittingham was relieved from his duties following a meeting with the Portsmouth board . . The 2–1 loss to Southend proved to be his last game in charge on the south coast . Whittingham was appointed first team coach at Crawley on Friday 13 December 2013 . Whittingham left the club in April 2014 when it was mutually agreed that his contract would not be renewed . Whittingham joined the FA as a coach educator on 1 August 2014 . External links . - Profile at UpThePosh ! The Peterborough United Database