   laurence valentine lloyd (born 6 october 1948 in bristol, england) is a retired footballer and former league manager, a burly and tough central defender who won honours for both bill shankly's liverpool and brian clough's nottingham forest, both highly successful sides of the 1970s. ==life and playing career== lloyd won the league championship, league cup and european cup with forest, the first of which came when he was already at the near-veteran age of 29. less than a decade earlier, he seemed set for major honours in the game when he joined liverpool. hometown club bristol rovers accepted a Â£50,000 bid for lloyd in april 1969 with manager bill shankly looking for a long-term successor to ageing skipper and defender ron yeats. lloyd broke into the team in 1969 making his debut on 27 september in a league game at the hawthorns, liverpool took a share of the spoils drawing with west bromwich albion 2â2, 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 that survived shankly cull captain tommy smith with some success, the pair were at the heart of the defence that took liverpool to the 1971 fa cup final, unfortunately, it wasn't the result
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