Larry Lloyd
Laurence Valentine " Larry " Lloyd ( born October 6, 1948 in Bristol ) is a former English footballer. The defender was initially in the first half of the 1970s part of the trained by Bill Shankly team of FC Liverpool, before he then also in the emerging team of Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough played a central role and there won the European Champions Cup twice.
Sports career
Liverpool FC (1969-1974)
Lloyd played initially for the unterklassigen club Bristol Rovers, before he changed for 50,000 British pounds for Liverpool in April 1969. The local manager Bill Shankly intended by the transfer of the central defender succeeds occupation of getting on in years team captain Ron Yeats and found in the header of the ball strong Lloyd a player of the " quintessentially British " character. On September 27, 1969, Lloyd graduated in Stadium " The Hawthorns " his first game at West Bromwich Albion, which ended with a 2-2 draw. As Shankly henceforth his team almost completely rebuilt, Lloyd was a fixture on the side of other young players to the coach of FC Liverpool built now.
Together with the team leader Tommy Smith made the Lloyd 's central defense, and the new heart in defense of Liverpool FC and the first intermediate success was reaching the 1971 FA Cup final to book. This was indeed lost to newly-crowned English champions Arsenal FC with 1:2 after extra time, but the defenders pair of Smith -Lloyd was at this time as the physically robust defense formation in English football, which also led to Lloyd for his first international appearances for England came. On May 19, 1971, Lloyd made his debut in a match of the British Home Championship against Wales for the English national team and was 0-0 together with his Liverpool team-mate Smith, Chris Lawler and Emlyn Hughes on the field.
On February 26, 1972 Lloyd scored in the 3-0 win against Manchester United at Anfield his first goal for the " Reds ". When he won both the English championship and the UEFA Cup with his club in the 1972/73 season, Lloyd graduated all 54 games and missed not doing a single minute. The season marked the high point of his career at Liverpool and then attended both injuries as well as the emerging Phil Thompson that Lloyd lost his place and thus the FA Cup final win against Newcastle United was not there.
The end of the season in 1973/74 as Shankly left his post in Liverpool, his successor Bob Paisley decided to continue for the fledgling Thompson, since this together with Emlyn Hughes also showed strengths in the game design and Lloyd, however, showed limited there. Shankly sold Lloyd on August 15, 1974, to the relegation candidates Coventry City Coventry and there was a significantly less ambitious first division, the transfer as a demotion Lloyds is understood. Although this was not even 26 years old, he thus seemed his best footballer in time to have been left behind.
Nottingham Forest (1976-1981)
After two years in the no man's land of the First Division Lloyd moved even in October 1976 in the subprime Second Division after the there active coach Brian Clough had followed a hint of his Kotrainers Peter Taylor and former national team initially on loan and later for the bargain sum of £ 60,000 pledged. On October 2, 1976 Lloyd debuted Although the 0-1 defeat at Hull City Boothferry Park in the first little promising, but at the end of the 1976/77 season promotion to the First Division had succeeded.
Then we went for both Forest and Lloyd meteoric upward, as the newly promoted immediately won the English championship and Lloyd presented a effective central defense alongside Kenny Burns. In addition, the club won the League Cup in the same year and defeated Lloyd play in the final of all his old club Liverpool. In the subsequent season's performance was increased once more, as the European Champion Clubs' Cup country could be won at the end of the season 1978/79 - after a 3-2 final win against FC Southampton Forest also defended the League Cup. As defending champion followed in 1980 another European country champion trophy. Also on the National team career Lloyd was affected by the positive result, which led to a further international duty. This is now the fourth game for England - nearly eight years after his third international match - but ended with a 1:4 defeat against Wales and Lloyd should come to no further use for his country more.
By the end of the 1980/81 season Lloyds performance to be significantly according to Clough and undertook in March 1981 the Norwegian international Jan Einar Aas. In the same month, Lloyd Forest left in the direction of Wigan Athletic, where he became exercised the office of a player coach.
After playing career
After his two- year tenure at Wigan Athletic Lloyd trained between July 1983 and August 1984 Notts County. Until 2000, he worked in Nottingham for the local radio station "Century 106 " and distinguished himself mainly as a fierce critic of his former club. Today he lives in Spain.
Achievements
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1979, 1980
- UEFA Cup: 1973
- European Supercup: 1979
- English Championship: 1973, 1978
- English League Cup: 1978, 1979
- Charity Shield: 1978