[Football] "Champions of Europe, we know what we are!"

[Greg Bobkin]

West Ham are clearly still on a high after winning the Europa Conference League last season, with their repeated songs about being Champions of Europe etc.

But does winning the third tier European competition really make you Champions of Europe? Or is it like the winners of League One claiming to be Champions of England?

IF we were to win the Europa League, would you consider us to be the champions of Europe?

Or perhaps I'm still feeling bitter after yesterday...

If Bobkin Jnr's team won a Sussex cup competition, they would be champions of Sussex.

So yes, West Ham are champions of Europe.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If Bobkin Jnr's team won a Sussex cup competition, they would be champions of Sussex.

So yes, West Ham are champions of Europe.

The Champions of Sussex have to win the Sussex Senior cup, not a Sussex Cup competition.
The Champions of Europe have to win the Champions Cup.

 

[HeaviestTed]

I just liked when the cat kicker got “that’s how your cat feels, that’s how your cat feels, that’s..”

 

[Eeyore]

I just liked when the cat kicker got “that’s how your cat feels, that’s how your cat feels, that’s..”

I think Palace started that one when he went off injured last year.

 

[portlock seagull]

The Champions of Sussex have to win the Sussex Senior cup, not a Sussex Cup competition.
The Champions of Europe have to win the Champions Cup.

It’s all down to money so really, who gives a ****? Well done West Ham, they are champions of the European competition they entered into. Now, can we all agree on that perhaps? (Absolutely no chance, you’re right!)

 

[Greg Bobkin]

The Champions of Sussex have to win the Sussex Senior cup, not a Sussex Cup competition.
The Champions of Europe have to win the Champions Cup.

Says who? If you're in a Sussex-based competition - and you win it - you're champions.

 

[Van Cleef]

Of course it is, but it's a bloody trophy I've waited over 50 years for

The number of times I've walked off a pitch in Brighton and Hove over the years, wishing the winners well in the next round, only to mumble not too quietly 'f***ing Mickey Mouse cup' as I trudged off

When we win a Carabao cup game I always refer to it as the League Cup. When we lose it goes back to being the Rumbelows cup.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Says who? If you're in a Sussex-based competition - and you win it - you're champions.

Only if all the teams in Sussex are eligible to take part.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

West Ham are clearly still on a high after winning the Europa Conference League last season, with their repeated songs about being Champions of Europe etc.

But does winning the third tier European competition really make you Champions of Europe? Or is it like the winners of League One claiming to be Champions of England?

IF we were to win the Europa League, would you consider us to be the champions of Europe?

Or perhaps I'm still feeling bitter after yesterday...

You seem to have fallen for it! It's obviously a chant designed to irritate people and get them to react exactly as you have done!

 

[ElectricNaz]

Let them sing that. It's their right.

They are defending European champions. As we will be next season when we sing it

 

[BNthree]

I assumed it was tongue in cheek - a bit like the ‘West Ham are massive everywhere we go’ - I really really hope both are tongue in cheek but part of me worries they’re not

That massive everywhere they go one generally isn’t tongue in cheek. They genuinely believe it.