[5] Laverick played seven matches in the Football League First Division for Chelsea in 1957,[6] but his progress was interrupted by two years National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
He failed to establish himself in the Chelsea first team and in February 1959 just prior to the end of his National Service Laverick was signed by First Division club Everton[7] for a sizeable £6,000 transfer fee.
This resulted in March 1962 in his move for a small fee into non-League football with Southern League second tier Division 1 club Corby Town.
[20] August 1971 saw Laverick return to Ashford in the role of the Reserve Team captain,[21] for whom he now played as a defender in their Kent League campaign.
A year later at the commencement of the 1972–73 season Laverick was appointed player/manager of Snowdown Colliery Welfare who were restarting their Kent League team from scratch.