'Horrible' hero who was key for Clough

FAREWELL TO HARDMAN

- Mike Walters

HIS signing-on fee at Nottingham Forest was a second-hand washing machine Brian Clough had lifted from the club laundry.

And Larry Lloyd, who died yesterday aged 75, repaid him by cleaning out opposition strikers for the next five years.

In the tunnel before the 1980 European Cup final in Madrid, Lloyd sidled up to Hamburg's star import Kevin Keegan his former Liverpool teammate to warn him Forest sidekick Kenny Burns would spare the England captain no mercy.

Lloyd said: "That night in Spain will go with me to the grave, if only for my attempt to scare the s*** out of Keegan. I told him, 'I've got to tell you something, mate.