Whyte joined Celtic on 14 May 1985 as a 16-year-old from the Celtic Boys Club. A defender with the greatest of promise, described as the newBilly McNeill, his form slumped towards the end of his time at the club. He left at the end of the1991–92 season when an agreeable new contract was not forthcoming. He was sold to Middlesbrough for £900,000 where he returned to the early good form he had shown at Celtic.
After 5 seasons onTeesside, Whyte left Middlesbrough to return to Scotland, joining Aberdeen for an undisclosed fee and a four-and-a-half-year contract in December 1997. He was appointed teamcaptain atPittodrie and remained there until 2002, when he joinedPartick Thistle on a free transfer.
Along withGerry Britton, Whyte was appointed joint player-manager of the Jags after Gerry Collins was sacked in November 2003.[2] In March 2004 he decided to hang up his playing boots to concentrate on management.[3] Whyte and Britton were sacked by Thistle in December 2004.[4] Soon afterwards he moved to the United Arab Emirates. He is now a pundit onShowSports, the sports channel on theShowtime Arabia network, based inDubai, and writes a weekly column for the UAE's leading daily newspaper 7DAYS.[5]
