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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Laurence Valentine Lloyd | ||
| Date of birth | (1948-10-06)6 October 1948 | ||
| Place of birth | Bristol, England | ||
| Date of death | 28 March 2024(2024-03-28) (aged 75) | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[1] | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Henbury Old Boys | |||
| 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) |
| Total | 443 | (18) | |
| International career | |||
| 1967 | England Youth | 3 | (1) |
| 1970–1972 | England U23 | 8 | (1) |
| 1971–1980 | England | 4 | (0) |
| 1979 | League of Ireland XI | 1 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1981–1983 | Wigan Athletic | ||
| 1983–1984 | Notts County | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Laurence Valentine Lloyd (6 October 1948 – 28 March 2024) was an English professionalfootball player and coach.
Adefender, he won domestic and European honours for bothBill Shankly'sLiverpool andBrian Clough'sNottingham Forest in the 1970s. He was also an England international.
Lloyd started playing local football with Henbury Old Boys before being signed byBristol Rovers. He made his debut on 10 August 1968 atEastville in a 1–1 draw againstWatford.[2]
Rovers accepted a£50,000 bid for Lloyd on 22 April 1969 with manager Bill Shankly looking for a long-term successor to ageing skipper and defenderRon Yeats. Lloyd broke into the team later that year, making his debut on 27 September in a league game atThe Hawthorns. Liverpool drew 2–2 withWest Bromwich Albion.[3] 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, captainTommy Smith. The pair were at the heart of the defence that took Liverpool to the 1971FA Cup final, losing 2–1 after extra time to newly crowned league championsArsenal.
SirAlf Ramsey gave Lloyd his international debut on 19 May 1971 in aBritish Home Championship match againstWales. The game was played atWembley and finished 0–0. Lloyd's club teammatesChris Lawler,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 overManchester City atAnfield on 26 February. His goal was the first of the 3 and came in the 37th minute.Kevin Keegan (53rd) andBobby Graham (65th) completed the scoring.
Liverpool won the League andUEFA Cup 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.[2] The following year he suffered an injury losing his place to the youngPhil Thompson and missed out on victory in theFA Cup final againstNewcastle United.
Shankly quit that summer. successorBob Paisley preferred Thompson and Lloyd transferred toCoventry City.
On 15 August 1974, Coventry under manager,Gordon Milne, paid a club record transfer fee for Lloyd. His form suffered after he was injured and he moved on to Nottingham Forest in December 1976. He had played 54 games for Coventry, scoring six goals.[4]
In 1976Brian 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 againstHull City. Forest lost 1–0 away atBoothferry 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 the1979–80 League Cup they reached the final for the third season running but lost toWolverhampton Wanderers.
In June 1979, Lloyd represented theLeague of Ireland XI as a guest player in a tour of Asia,[5] scoring twice in a 4–1 win overSingapore.[6]
In 1980, Forest retained their European crown.
Lloyd made four appearances forEngland in an international career which spanned over eight years. He made his debut on 19 May 1971 under the managership ofAlf Ramsey in aHome Championship game againstWales which ended in a 0–0 draw. He made two further appearances, againstSwitzerland andNorthern Ireland in 1971 and 1972 but was not picked again until 17 May 1980. Now under the managership ofRon Greenwood, Lloyd was picked to play against Wales again in the Home Championship. This was his last international appearance as England lost 4–1 to Wales at theRacecourse Ground inWrexham.[7]
Lloyd left Forest forWigan Athletic in March 1981, where he was player-manager taking over fromIan McNeill. In1981–82, he guided them to promotion from theFourth Division, in only their fourth season as aFootball League team. The following season, Lloyd oversaw their survival in theThird Division.
Lloyd's success as Wigan attracted the attention ofNotts County, who were looking for a new first team manager afterJimmy Sirrel "moved upstairs". However, after Lloyd's only season atMeadow Lane he left the club after relegation ended their three-year stay in the First Division, being sacked on 21 October 1984.
Up until 2000 Lloyd was a regular and outspoken pundit forNottingham-based local radio, firstly onGEM AM and latterly onCentury 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 2001 after falling on hard times, Lloyd took the decision to sell his European competition medals raising £12,000 from a sale atChristie's. He regretted selling the medals which he claimed was forced on him by his financial position.[8]
In 2008 Lloyd's autobiography titled "Hard Man, Hard Game" was published.[2]
In 2021, he returned to the UK to live in Nottinghamshire. Lloyd died on 28 March 2024, at the age of 75.[9][10]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other[a] | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Bristol Rovers | 1968–69 | Third Division | 43 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 51 | 1 | ||
| Liverpool | 1969–70 | First Division | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | |
| 1970–71 | First Division | 40 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | 60 | 0 | ||
| 1971–72 | First Division | 33 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 1 | |
| 1972–73 | First Division | 42 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 1 | — | 66 | 3 | ||
| 1973–74 | First Division | 27 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 1 | |
| Total | 150 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 218 | 5 | ||
| Coventry City | 1974–75 | First Division | 34 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 6 | ||
| 1975–76 | First Division | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 0 | |||
| 1976–77 | First Division | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
| Total | 50 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 54 | 6 | ||||
| Nottingham Forest | 1976–77 | Second Division | 26 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | 34 | 3 | |
| 1977–78 | First Division | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 34 | 1 | |||
| 1978–79 | First Division | 36 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 55 | 4 | |
| 1979–80 | First Division | 42 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 64 | 4 | |
| 1980–81 | First Division | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 0 | |
| Total | 148 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 23 | 3 | 20 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 214 | 12 | ||
| Wigan Athletic | 1980–81 | Fourth Division | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 9 | 0 | ||
| 1981–82 | Fourth Division | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 40 | 4 | |||
| 1982–83 | Third Division | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 8 | 0 | |||
| Total | 52 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | — | — | 57 | 4 | ||||
| Career total | 443 | 18 | 40 | 2 | 50 | 5 | 51 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 599 | 28 | ||
| Team[11] | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Wigan Athletic | 3 March 1981 | 4 April 1983 | 107 | 47 | 27 | 33 | 043.9 |
| Notts County | 7 July 1983 | 21 October 1984 | 66 | 19 | 15 | 32 | 028.8 |
| Total | 173 | 66 | 42 | 65 | 038.2 | ||
Liverpool[12]
Nottingham Forest[13]
| International | |
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| National | |