He was born in Birmingham and has two older brothers who were also professional football players, Dave Latchford who was also a goalkeeper and played over 200 games for Birmingham City, and more famously the Everton and England striker, Bob Latchford who also started his career at Birmingham City.
Latchford spent most of his career in Scotland with, where he was known affectionately by the fans as "Gas Meter" (rhyming slang for Peter) and "The Cat". By early 1975 Latchford had played over 80 league games, however at this time he had been dropped from the first-team and was playing with the youth side. Having expressed his frustration at lack of first-team football to manager Don Howe, a loan deal with was arranged and Latchford made his debut for The Bhoys on 22 February 1975 in a 2–1 league defeat against Hibernian at Easter Road.
Lactchford had impressed sufficiently at for the loan deal to be made permanent, and on 14 July 1975 paid a transfer fee of £25,000 to West Brom.
He made over 270 appearances for in the late 1970s and early 1980s, winning 2 League Championships and 3 Scottish Cups. Latchford also played in several European ties foreign
He pulled off several saves to deny the Portuguese side, and capped off an outstanding performance with a penalty save from João Alves in the 85th minute. Latchford"s most memorable European game though was on 5 March 1980 when played Real Madrid at Parkhead in the first leg of a European cup quarter-final tie.
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, 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 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. Foreign a few years he combined goalkeeping coach duties at Dumfries club Queen of the South with coaching the youth goalkeepers at.
Latchford"s spell at Queens included the 2007-2008 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
