Larry Lloyd
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Laurence Valentine Lloyd | ||
| Date of birth | 6 October 1948 | ||
| Place of birth | Bristol, England | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1967–1969 | Bristol Rovers | 43 | (1) |
| 1969–1974 | Liverpool | 150 | (4) |
| 1974–1976 | Coventry City | 50 | (5) |
| 1976–1981 | Nottingham Forest | 148 | (6) |
| 1981–1983 | Wigan Athletic | 52 | (2) |
| National team | |||
| 1970–1972 | England U-23 | 8 | (1) |
| 1971–1980 | England | 4 | (0) |
| 1979 | League of Ireland XI | (2) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1981–1983 | Wigan Athletic | ||
| 1983–1984 | Notts County | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Laurence Valentine Lloyd (born 6 October 1948) is a retired footballer and former league manager, a burly and tough central defender who won honours for both Bill Shankly's Liverpool and Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest, both highly successful sides of the 1970s.
Lloyd won the League championship, League Cup and European Cup with Forest, the first of which came when he was already at the near-veteran age of 29. Less than a decade earlier, he seemed set for major honours in the game when he joined Liverpool.
Hometown club Bristol 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 took a share of the spoils drawing with West Bromwich Albion 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 that survived Shankly cull captain Tommy Smith with some success, the pair were at the heart of the defence that took Liverpool to the 1971 FA Cup final, unfortunately, it wasn't the result that Lloyd and rest of the Reds wanted as they lost 2–1 after extra time to Arsenal who had already won the league title. This was arguably the hardest central defensive partnership in English football at the time, and Lloyd's own strength and battle-hardened nature earned him recognition for England.
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