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		</div><p>West Ham enjoyed a heroes’ welcome as fans lined the streets of east London to celebrate their Europa Conference League glory.</p>
<p>The Hammers won their first major trophy since the 1980 FA Cup, and a first European title since 1965, when they beat Italian side Fiorentina 2-1 in Prague on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>And their jubilant supporters, decked out in the famous claret and blue on a warm and sunny evening in the capital, packed the pavements as the Hammers paraded the silverware on an open-top bus.</p>
<p>The squad’s journey started at the site of their former home at Upton Park and finished at Stratford Town Hall, where they enjoyed a reception.</p>
<p>Only West Ham fans of a certain age will ever have seen their side celebrate success like this, with a similar parade being held after that 1965 European Cup Winners’ Cup victory, where the likes of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters got the taste of winning trophies.</p>
<p>But the younger generation made the most of it, climbing on lamp posts and bus stops to get the best vantage point of their heroes while also letting off flares.</p>
<p>David Moyes may have joined Ron Greenwood and John Lyall in earning immortality as managers to win a major trophy with the Hammers but he initially endured a lessened role on the bus, taking pictures of his players as they posed together.</p>
<p>But he was soon joining in with the celebrations, dancing and jigging with the trophy on his head.</p>
<figure id="attachment_179297" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-179297" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/25D9ADCB-D5FD-40D1-BE96-E4C8B7F2922E-300x155.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="155" class="size-medium wp-image-179297" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-179297" class="wp-caption-text">West Ham fans turned up in their numbers to see their heroes</figcaption></figure>
<p>Lifting the trophy appears to be a fitting way for captain Declan Rice to bow out, with chairman David Sullivan confirming the England international will be allowed to leave the club this summer, with a bidding war expected to commence soon.</p>
<p>Rice was emotional on top of the bus, admitting it does not feel “real”.</p>
<p>“This is absolutely incredible, when you’re a kid and you love football as much as I do, and the lads do, you see teams having trophy parades,” he said. “I was once a kid watching teams do trophy parades and now to be doing one and captaining the side is just so, so special, I can’t even put into words.</p>
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“We knew it would be exciting and the fans would come out, I am just trying to take it all in, we don’t get to experience this ever. These moments don’t come around very often.</p>
<p>“I’ve seen top captains over the years lift trophies and it was my time at West Ham to lift the trophy. It doesn’t really feel real.</p>
<p>“At 24, captain of West Ham lifting a trophy in a European competition, I don’t think it is going to hit me for a while, but I am going to enjoy it and be as happy for as long as possible.</p>
<p>“Bobby Moore, Billy Bonds, I am seeing messages that I am now in that category, I don’t really know what to say. Bizarre.”</p>
<p>Moyes spent much of the season under pressure following a disappointing Premier League campaign, but Rice believes he is now the club’s best-ever manager.</p>
<p>The England midfielder added on Sky Sports News: “I think he goes down as the best manager West Ham have ever had. The circumstances, when he first came in, kept us twice, European competition, we finished fifth, sixth, a semi-final (Europa League) and now we’ve won this, he deserves all the credit he gets.</p>
<p>“He’s a top man and as you can see he is buzzing.”</p>
<p>Jarrod Bowen was West Ham’s hero in the final as he scored a 90th-minute winner, capping off a remarkable turnaround in his career having been playing at non-league Hereford nine years ago after being rejected as a youngster by Aston Villa.</p>
<p>“I love the game and these moments make it all worth it, the rejections and not going the way you want it,” he said.</p>
<p>“You fast forward 10 years and you are on an open-top bus parade for winning a European trophy so from where I have come, my mum was crying on the phone, my dad was there.</p>
<p>“It is a bit surreal to say I have won a European trophy from where I have come from. I love it.”</p>
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