Peter Michael Whittingham was an English professional footballer.
He played as a central midfielder, even though he operated as a winger on both the left and right, as well as a second-striker.
Whittingham began his career at boyhood club Aston Villa and was part of the club’s 2002 FA Youth Cup-winning team.
He played 66 games for Villa and had loan spells at Burnley and Derby before joining Cardiff in 2007.
Whittingham made over 450 appearances and scored 98 goals in 10 years at Cardiff prior to finishing his career at Blackburn in 2018.
Peter Whittingham Cause Of Death
Former Cardiff City midfielder Peter Whittingham sustained a traumatic head injury at the Park Hotel pub on March 7, 2020, and was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff following the fall, but his condition depleted resulting in his demise on March 18, 2020.
According to Dr. Christopher Hingston, an intensive care consultant at the hospital, Whittingham had a Glasgow coma score of three – the lowest possible score making him completely unresponsive amid his admission.
Whittingham suffered a subdural haematoma, where blood collects between the skull and the surface of the brain, as well as bleeding and swelling inside his brain, and was given palliative care before he died 11 days later after failing to regain consciousness.
In March 2021, the coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death.
Death CCTV, How did Peter Whittingham fall?
Per reports, the former England U21 international had gone drinking with his wife’s brother Robert Williams and a friend Ryan Taylor to watch England vs Wales Six Nations match around 3 pm on March 7, 2020.
CCTV captured Whittingham engaging in “horseplay” with the duo in a corridor, before he appeared to lose his balance and walked through a fire door off-camera and fell down eight steps and hit his head just after 9.30pm.
Was Peter Whittingham married?
Peter Whittingham was married to Amanda Williams Whittingham.
Whittingham met his wife Amanda while at Cardiff club.
The couple had two sons. They welcomed their first son in 2018 but the second son was born in May 2020, two months after Peter’s death.
Amanda and her family lived in Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan.