Minute-by-minute report: Join Rob Smyth for all the action in Prague as the teams do battle to end long waits for silverware
final between Fiorentina and West Ham in Prague. Yet another English team in a European final, eh? Well, yes, but this isn’t like the others. It’s the 29th appearance by an English team in a final since the return to European competition in 1990 – but it’s only the third by a team outside what we now call the Big Six: Middlesbrough 2006, Fulham 2010, West Ham 2023.– know this is probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for their club.
Fiorentina last trophy was the 2001 Coppa Italia, though they lost this year’s final to Internazionale. Their only European triumph was also in the Cup Winners’ Cup, four years before West Ham, and their last final was the Uefa Cup of 1989-90. Fiorentina lost that 3-1 on aggregate to Juventus, a defeat made infinitely more painful by Roberto Baggio’s imminent move to Turin.
Many of us were guilty of sneering at the Conference League when it was founded in 2021. But it already feels like an essential part of the calendar – more innocent than the Champions League, less predictable than the Champions and Europa Leagues. Fiorentina and West Ham are among football’s have-nots, but the haves will probably never experience the type of excitement that both sets of fans and players are enjoying right now. For one of them, the most glorious of glories awaits.
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