Larry Lloyd - Player Profile
| Full Name: | Laurence Valentine Lloyd |
| Born: | 06/10/1948 |
| Died: | 28/03/2024 (age 75) |
| Place of Birth: | Bristol |
| Nationality: | England |
| Position: | Defence |
| Signed: | 02/03/1981 (Signed | Nottingham Forest) |
| Left: | 04/04/1983 (Contract Terminated) |
| International Caps: | England - 4 |
OBITUARY - LARRY LLOYD (1948 - 2024)
All at Wigan Athletic Football Club are deeply saddened at the passing of former player-manager Larry Lloyd at the age of 75.
Laurence Valentine Lloyd was born in Bristol on Wednesday, 6 October 1948 and started playing football with Henbury Old Boys before being signed by Third Division side Bristol Rovers in 1967. He played 51 (43 lge) games for the Pirates scoring 1 league goal before a £50,000 bid from Bill Shankly saw the young central defender transferred to Liverpool in April 1969.
He was to have five seasons with the Reds playing 218 (150 lge) games scoring 5 (4 lge) goals. They were FA Cup runners-up in 1971 before winning the League and UEFA Cup double in season 1972/73. After gaining 8 England U23 caps, Sir Alf Ramsay gave him his full international debut in May 1971 against Wales (0-0) at Wembley Stadium.
In August 1974, Coventry City paid a record £240,000 for his services and he spent just over two seasons with the Sky Blues playing 54 (50 lge) games and scoring 6 (5 lge) goals.
In October 1976, Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough snapped him up for £60,000 Prenominal success followed with Forest with first an Anglo Scottish Cup, promotion to the top division, followed by a First Division title, two League Cup wins, FA Charity Shield win, two European Cup wins and a European Super Cup. He played 218 (148 lge) games for Forest and scored 12 (6 lge) goals. He had won the last of his four England caps in 1980 against Wales in a 4-1 defeat.
Larry left Forest in March 1981 to become player-manager of Wigan Athletic and he made made his debut on Saturday, 7 March 1981 in a home 1-0 defeat to Rochdale (crowd 6,029). He was to play 9 games until the end of the season as Latics finished in 11thspot.
In season 1981/82, his signings of Graham Barrow, Les Bradd, Clive Evans, John McMahon, Jimmy Weston, Roy Tunks and the big money signing of Eamonn O'Keefe saw Larry guide them to promotion from the Fourth Division which included a run of 21 league games unbeaten.
Larry also played in the League Cup home win over Chelsea (4-2) before his side lost 2-1 to reigning European Cup winners Aston Villa in the next fourth round (1-2) Larry played 40 (36 lge) games scoring 4 (2 lge) goals in the promotion season.
The following season, Latics struggled in the Third Division and Larry played just 8 (7 lge) games. After a defeat at Walsall (0-2), and only one win in eleven games, Larry was relieved off his position with Bobby Charlton taking temporary charge. The imposing Larry did had a few run ins with staff and players with his hard ways.
In total. Larry had turned out in 57 (52 lge) games for Latics and netted 4 (2 lge) goals.
He had a manager win success rate of 43.9 per cent.
Ihe was then to become manager of First Division side Notts County but left in October 1984 following their relegation.
He was to run "The Stage Door" Pub in Nottingham city centre and once threw out a certain Roy Keane.
Up until 2000 he was a regular and outspoken pundit for Nottingham-based local radio, firstly on GEM AM and latterly on Century 106, covering Forest matches.
He was to later rue selling his medals when he fell on bad times with depression. 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 2021, he returned to the UK to live in Nottinghamshire.
On Thursday, 28 March 2024, it was announced that he had sadly died at the age of 75.
Wigan Athletic Career
| League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |
| 1982-1983 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | |
| 1981-1982 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | |
| TOTALS | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | |
