Editing Larry Lloyd (section)

==Playing career==

===Early years===
Lloyd started playing local football with Henbury Old Boys before being signed by [[Bristol Rovers F.C.|Bristol Rovers]]. He made his debut on 10 August 1968 at [[Eastville Stadium|Eastville]] in a 1–1 draw against [[Watford F.C.|Watford]].<ref name="BRFC">{{cite web | title=Larry Lloyd | website=Bristol Rovers | date=28 March 2024 | url=https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/20242/march/larry-lloyd--1948---2024/ | access-date=29 March 2024}}</ref>

===Liverpool===
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 defender [[Ron Yeats]]. Lloyd broke into the team later that year, making his debut on 27 September in a league game at [[The Hawthorns]]. Liverpool drew 2–2  with [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Liverpool played on Saturday 27 September 1969 | website=LFChistory | date=27 September 1969 | url=https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/525 | access-date=29 March 2024}}</ref> 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 (footballer born 1945)|Tommy Smith]]. The pair were at the heart of the defence that took Liverpool to the 1971 [[FA Cup]] final, losing 2–1 after extra time to newly crowned league champions [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]].

Sir [[Alf Ramsey]] gave Lloyd his international debut on 19 May 1971 in a [[British Home Championship]] match against [[Wales national football team|Wales]]. The game was played at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] and finished 0–0. Lloyd's club teammates [[Chris 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 over [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] at [[Anfield]] on 26 February. His goal was the first of the 3 and came in the 37th minute. [[Kevin Keegan]] (53rd) and [[Bobby Graham (footballer)|Bobby Graham]] (65th) completed the scoring.

Liverpool won the League and [[UEFA 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.<ref name=BRFC/> The following year he suffered an injury losing his place to the young [[Phil Thompson]] and missed out on victory in the [[FA Cup]] final against [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]].

Shankly quit that summer. successor [[Bob Paisley]] preferred Thompson and Lloyd transferred to [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]].

===Coventry 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.<ref name="CCFC">{{cite web | title=NEWS: RIP Larry Lloyd | website=Coventry City | date=28 March 2024 | url=https://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/2024/march/news-rip-larry-lloyd/ | access-date=29 March 2024}}</ref>

===Nottingham Forest===
In 1976 [[Brian Clough]], acting on [[Peter Taylor (footballer, born 1928)| 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 [[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]]. 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 in English football|1979–80]] League Cup they reached the final for the third season running but lost to [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]].

In June 1979, Lloyd represented the [[League of Ireland XI]] as a guest player in a tour of Asia,<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1979/0623/Pg004.html#Ar00406] {{dead link|date=July 2016}}</ref> scoring twice in a 4–1 win over [[Singapore national football team|Singapore]].<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1979/0626/Pg003.html#Ar00312] {{dead link|date=July 2016}}</ref>

In 1980, Forest retained their European crown.