West Ham trophy parade: Everything you need to know including time and route after Conference League win
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West Ham have confirmed they will be taking to the streets of London to celebrate their impressive Europa Conference League triumph, which ended their wait for a trophy in recent history.
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Hide AdDavid who has worked In football for almost his entire life won his first-ever trophy after Jarrod Bowen broke through on goal to score the winner after Giacomo Bonaventura had scored for Fiorentina to cancel out Said Benrahma’s strike striker that gave the Hammers the lead in the game.
The win transforms a season that was challenging for Moyes and instantly puts him into West Ham folklore as the manager to win their first trophy in 43 years, something most, if not all Premier League teams will be proud of.
Captain Declan Rice’s future is up in the air with the owner confirming the midfielder will leave after turning down a £200,00-a-week wage.
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Hide AdThe club confirmed the team will be hitting the street the moment they touch down in London on Thursday. The parade bus sets off at 7pm, making its way to Stratford Town Hall around 8pm”but timings will inevitably change depending on the size of the crowd”.
The club statement read: “West Ham United’s heroes will return from their triumphant night in Prague to a victory celebration in the streets of East London on Thursday evening.
“The playing squad and coaching staff will parade the Club’s first major trophy since 1980 on a specially-commissioned open-top bus, traveling from the Hammers’ old home at Upton Park to a reception at Stratford Town Hall.
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Hide Ad“Wednesday night’s historic victory over ACF Fiorentina in the UEFA Europa Conference League final has delivered the first European trophy to East London since the legendary West Ham team starring Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, and Alan Sealey won the Cup Winners’ Cup at Wembley in May 1965.
“In the celebrations that followed that triumph, Moore and his team-mates greeted tens of thousands of supporters from the roof of their parade bus, before the captain held the trophy aloft from the balcony of East Ham Town Hall, standing alongside the Mayor of Newham.
“Almost 60 years on, the new generation of trophy-winning Hammers heroes will pay tribute to their predecessors in our heartland, starting the parade at the junction of Green Street and Barking Road, adjacent to the Boleyn Pub and The Champions Statue.
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Hide Ad“The parade will then proceed west along Barking Road, turn right onto Greengate Street, and continue slowly along the A112 past Plaistow Park, Plaistow Station, and Stratford Park, before ending its journey on West Ham Lane, outside the Old Town Hall in Stratford – at the heart of our home borough of Newham and where our current home resides.
“The Mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz will be there to welcome the squad, just like her predecessor in 1965, and Hammers skipper Declan Rice will hold the trophy aloft in front of the Claret & Blue faithful.
“It promises to be a party that no one present will ever forget, after a victory that will be forever etched in the history of West Ham United, and in the record books of European football.”
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