His saves from England striker Laurie Cunningham and Spanish star Santillana helped Celtic to a 2–0 win on the night, although Celtic lost the return leg in Spain 0–3 to go out on aggregate. Latchford sustained a hand injury in the summer of 1980 and lost his place in the team to Pat Bonner. From then on Latchford featured rarely for Celtic, but he remained loyal to the club – to the probable detriment of his career. He did, however, get a brief run of first-team action during early 1986 when Bonner was out injured. He finally left in Celtic in the summer of 1987 after having made 272 competitive appearances for the club. Latchford joined Clyde on a one-year deal, where after a season he finally retired. He is now a goalkeeping coach and has worked in this capacity for Forfar Athletic, Clyde, Hearts and Motherwell. For a few years he combined goalkeeping coach duties at Dumfries club Queen of the South with coaching the youth goalkeepers at Celtic. Latchford's spell at Queens included the 2007–08 season run to the final of the Scottish Cup, where they lost narrowly (3–2) to Rangers. Whilst at West Bromwich Albion, Latchford was capped twice for the England U23 side. He played against Poland in October 1973 (0–0) and Wales in January 1974 (0–0). Latchford was never capped at senior level.