Peter Latchford
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Peter William Latchford | ||
| Date of birth | 27 September 1952 | ||
| Place of birth | Kings Heath, Birmingham, England | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1969 | West Bromwich Albion | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1969–1975 | West Bromwich Albion | 81 | (0) |
| 1975 | → Celtic (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 1975–1987 | Celtic | 177 | (0) |
| 1987–1989 | Clyde | 12 | (0) |
| Total | 280 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1973–1974 | England U23 | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Peter William Latchford (born 27 September 1952) is an English former football goalkeeper. He was born in Birmingham and has two older brothers who were also professional footballers, Dave Latchford who was also a goalkeeper and played over 200 games for Birmingham City, and more famously the Everton and England striker, Bob Latchford who also started his career at Birmingham City.
Latchford spent most of his career in Scotland with Celtic, where he was known affectionately by the fans as 'Gas Meter' (rhyming slang for Peter) and 'The Cat'.
Whilst his two elder brothers both began their careers at Birmingham City, Peter Latchford started his career at local rivals, West Bromwich Albion. By early 1975 Latchford had played over 80 league games, however at this time he had been dropped from the first-team and was playing with the youth side.
Having expressed his frustration at lack of first-team football to manager Don Howe, a loan deal with Celtic was arranged and Latchford made his debut for The Bhoys on 22 February 1975 in a 2–1 league defeat against Hibernian at Easter Road. Latchford played 13 more league and Scottish Cup games that season for Celtic, culminating in his first winner's medal as Celtic defeated Airdrie 3–1 in the 1975 Scottish Cup Final.
Latchford had impressed sufficiently at Celtic for the loan deal to be made permanent, and on 14 July 1975 Celtic paid a transfer fee of £25,000 to West Brom. He made over 270 appearances for Celtic in the late 1970s and early 1980s, winning 2 League Championships and 3 Scottish Cups. These successes included a league and cup double in 1976–77, the 4–2 win over Rangers in the famous '10 men win the league' game in 1979 and the infamous 1980 Cup Final riot (Celtic beat Rangers 1–0 after Extra Time) the following season.
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