Editing Larry Lloyd (section)

===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]].