Laurence Valentine Lloyd (born 6 October 1948) is an English retired

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central defender and manager. He won domestic and European honours for both

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and

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's Nottingham Forest in the 1970s.

Early years

He started playing local football with Henbury Old Boys before being signed to

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Liverpool

Rovers accepted a £50,000 bid for Lloyd in April 1969 with manager Bill Shankly looking for a long-term successor to ageing skipper and defender Ron Yeats. Lloyd broke into the team in 1969, making his debut on 27 September in a league game at The Hawthorns. Liverpool drew with

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2–2. By the following year Lloyd was a regular as Shankly underwent a major rebuilding of the side, finding more new players of Lloyd's age. Lloyd partnered one of the players who survived the Shankly cull, captain Tommy Smith. The pair were at the heart of the defence that took Liverpool to the 1971

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final, losing 2–1 after extra time to newly crowned league champions

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. Sir

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gave Lloyd his international debut on 19 May 1971 in a

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match against

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. The game was played at

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and finished 0–0. Lloyd's club teammates

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, Emlyn Hughes and Smith all started the game. 1972 saw Lloyd score his first goal for the Reds. It came in the 3–0 league win over

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on 26 February. His goal was the first of the 3 and came in the 37th minute.

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(53rd) and Bobby Graham (65th) completed the scoring. Liverpool won the League and

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double in 1973. Lloyd did not miss a single minute of the 54 matches played in the whole season. He scored in the first leg of the UEFA Cup final helping Liverpool to a 3–2 aggregate victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach. The following year he suffered an injury losing his place to the young Phil Thompson and missed out on victory in the

final against

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. Shankly quit that summer. Successor

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preferred Thompson and Lloyd transferred to

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Coventry City

On 15 August 1974 Coventry paid a club record transfer fee of £240,000 for Lloyd's services. The deal was to be funded by the sale to Tottenham of Mick McGuire and Jimmy Holmes for £200,000 but this fell through when Spurs manager Bill Nicholson resigned. As a consequence Coventry went substantially into the red and were left with financial problems for some years.

Nottingham Forest

In October 1976 Brian Clough, acting on Peter Taylor's advice, snapped up Lloyd for £60,000 after an initial loan period. Forest were chasing promotion to the top flight in English football. He made his Forest debut on 2 October in a league match against

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. Forest lost 1–0 away at Boothferry Park. It did not prevent Lloyd going on to win promotion with Forest that season. They won the League title the next season, and also won the League Cup final, against Lloyd's former club, Liverpool. In 1979, Lloyd and Forest won the European Cup and retained the League Cup. In the 1979–80 League Cup they reached the final for the third season running but lost to

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. In June 1979, Lloyd represented the

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as a guest player in a tour of Asia, scoring twice in a 4–1 win over

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. In 1980, Forest retained their European crown. Also in May 1980, Lloyd earned a recall to the England squad and played in the 4–1 loss to Wales in the Home Internationals. It was to be his fourth and final cap, coming eight years after his previous one.

Wigan Athletic

Lloyd left Forest for

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in March 1981, where he was player-manager taking over from

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. In 1981–82, he guided them to promotion from the Fourth Division, in only their fourth season as a

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team. The following season, Lloyd oversaw their survival in the Third Division.

Notts County

Lloyd's success as Wigan attracted the attention of

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, who were looking for a new first team manager after

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"moved upstairs". However, after Lloyd's only season at

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he left the club after relegation ended their three-year stay in the First Division.

Later years

Up until 2000 Larry was a regular and outspoken pundit for

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-based local radio, firstly on GEM AM and latterly on Century 106, covering Forest matches. He lived in Spain for many years, where he had a number of bars and dealt in property sales. He was involved in football as manager of amateur side Real Marbella. In 2021, he returned to the UK to live in Nottinghamshire.

Career statistics

As a player

:A. The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the

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and Intercontinental Cup.

As a manager

Honours

;Liverpool * First Division: 1972-73 * fa cup runner up 1971 *

: 1972-73 ;Nottingham Forest * First Division: 1977–78 *

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: 1977–78, 1978–79 *

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: 1978–79, 1979–80 *

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: 1976–77

References

External links

Thisisanfield.com Forgotten HeroesOfficial past player at Liverpoolfc.tvPlayer profile at LFChistory.net
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Larry 1948 births Living people Footballers from Bristol English footballers England international footballers England under-23 international footballers Association football defenders Bristol Rovers F.C. players Liverpool F.C. players Coventry City F.C. players Nottingham Forest F.C. players Wigan Athletic F.C. players English Football League players English football managers Wigan Athletic F.C. managers Notts County F.C. managers League of Ireland XI players UEFA Champions League winning players UEFA Cup winning players FA Cup Final players