Larry Lloyd threw 'lippy' Roy Keane out of pub at Nottingham Forest's Christmas party
Liverpool and Nottingham Forest icon Larry Lloyd, who passed away at the age of 75 on Thursday, once had a tense run in with Roy Keane in a pub during a Christmas Party
The late, great Larry Lloyd once chucked Roy Keane out of a pub because the Irishman was giving him some "lip".
English football was plunged into mourning on Thursday (March 28) following the news of Lloyd's tragic death. The former Liverpool and Nottingham Forest defender passed away at the age of 75.
Lloyd won everything there was to win at club level, with two European Cups, two First Division titles and a host of other honours under his belt. He played under the legendary Brian Clough at Forest and ending up settling in Nottingham after quitting football in the mid-80s, having grown "disillusioned" with the game.
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To get away from it all he decided to a run a pub in the city centre, The Stage Door (now called The Stage). But old colleagues of his caught wind of the venture and it wasn't long before the pub was hosting Nottingham Forest's Christmas party.
During the bash, Lloyd butted heads with a young Keane, and asked the future Manchester United skipper to leave due to a spot of unspecified misbehaviour. "Let's just say I thought Roy was being a bit naughty," Lloyd told the Independent back in 2008.
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"I asked him to leave. He gave me some lip. I had a word with his captain, Stuart Pearce, and asked him to get Roy to leave. Stuart said: 'He's no harm'. So I chucked all of them out."
Fancy that, going up against not one but two of the Premier League hardest figures. That's Larry Lloyd for you.
The Bristol-born star, who played four times for England, began his career at local club Bristol Rovers before signing for Liverpool in 1969. He played over 200 times for the Reds and landed the First Division title in 1973. A year later he signed for Coventry, before moving on to Forest in 1976.
The Tricky Trees were in the Second Division at the time, but earned promotion to the top flight at the end of Lloyd's first season there. They followed that up by winning the First Division in 1978, and followed that up by landing back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980.
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To this day, Forest remain the only club in world football to have won more European Cups (or the continental equivalent) than domestic league titles.
In 1981 Lloyd was on the move again, this time to fourth-tier club Wigan. Half-a-season later he took over as player-manager and got the Latics promoted to the Third Division.
He stepped down - and hung up his boots - in 1983 after successfully keeping them in the division. After that he managed Notts County for a year before bringing the curtain down on his legendary career in football.