Why would anybody want to celebrate their club winning a trophy? Very strange… | OneFootball

This is maybe the strangest phenomenon of all when it comes to modern day football.

When fans of Premier League teams are mocked by fans of other Premier League clubs, when celebrating winning a match.

The celebration police deciding what is considered ‘over the top’ by fans of other clubs.

All kinds of reasons as to why this may possibly be, a few of which I might mention later.

This of course has now extended to the ultimate.

Why would anybody celebrate their club winning a trophy?

Saturday 29 March 2025 seeing some 300,000+ Newcastle United fans taking to the streets of the city centre and the grass of the Town Moor to celebrate a first trophy in 56 years, a first domestic one in 70 years.

What were we all thinking of???

“It is only the League Cup!”

“An open top bus parade for that!”

“They think they have won the World Cup!”

Yes, how dare us have some fun, finding a reason to take to the streets and the pubs to enjoy ourselves, why would anybody want to do that???

The thing is, as Newcastle United fans we have ALWAYS found a reason to have fun on matchdays and in and around games.

Great if you win as well of course but most clubs don’t win trophies, indeed, many fanbases might rarely see their teams even winning any matches!

Are we all supposed to bow to fans of other clubs who decide what is and isn’t worth celebrating.

If your team wins any match, why wouldn’t you want to enjoy it to the full, both during and after? What kind of weirdo wouldn’t? Especially if you have spent your time and money going to that match.

As for not celebrating winning a trophy…

From August 2008 onwards, Premier League clubs have won 57 trophies (as of 30 March 2025), 49 domestic trophies and eight European ones:

18 Man City (6 League Cup, 3 FA Cup, 8 Premier League, 1 Champions League)

12 Chelsea (1 League Cup, 4 FA Cup, 3 Premier League, 2 Champions League, 2 Europa League)

10 Man U (4 League Cup, 2 FA Cup, 3 Premier League, 1 Europa League)

6 Liverpool (3 League Cup, 1 FA Cup, 1 Premier League, 1 Champions League)

4 Arsenal (4 FA Cup)

2 Leicester (1 FA Cup, 1 Premier League)

1 Newcastle United (1 League Cup)

1 West Ham (1 UEFA Conference League)

1 Swansea (1 League Cup)

1 Birmingham (1 League Cup)

1 Wigan (1 FA Cup)

In almost a generation, three clubs have won 40 of these 57 trophies by English clubs, five clubs have won 50 of the 57.

If you take away the total one-off that was the Leicester City phenomenon that saw them come from nowhere and win the Premier League and then FA Cup, what are you left with?

Until Newcastle United two weeks ago, from August 2008 onwards, the only other fanbases with any trophy to CELEBRATE had been those of Wigan, Birmingham, Swansea and West Ham.

Indeed, 2011-2013 was a bit of a glorious era for unworthy fanbases to be celebrating winning a trophy, as 2011 was when Birmingham won the League Cup and in 2013 we saw two open top bus celebrations featuring Wigan (FA Cup) and Swansea (League Cup). The nerve of it!!

So after 2013, apart from the double celebration for Leicester City, we had to wait until 2023 and West Ham winning that Europa Conference League, defeating Fiorentina in Prague, a late winner from Jarrod Bowen.

The Hammers beat Fiorentina 2-1 in Prague on Wednesday, with Jarrod Bowen scoring a late winner.

West Ham had only ever won four trophies previously in their entire history (three FA Cups and a European Cup Winners Cup) and had won nothing at all for 43 years, until this 2023 triumph.

West Ham fans turned out in their numbers for the open top bus parade in June 2023 and this is part of how BBC Sport reported on it:

The Newman family – Ben, Nicky and their sons Tommy, Kai and Harry – had travelled two hours to be at the parade.

Dad Ben said of the victory: “It doesn’t feel real. We haven’t won anything in all my life so for us to win something, for us this is everything.

“The boys are lucky. We’ve had to wait 40-odd years to win something.”

Wife Nicky added: “I feel so emotional – we sobbed.” While son Tommy said: “It’s amazing. I’ve never experienced a final, it’s just been surreal.

“I’d have never thought it would happen, but it actually has. I can’t put into words how excited I am.”

For Newcastle United fans, this all feels/sounds very familiar.

Kind of like, you know…normal!

If you follow a football team year after year, surely this is what it is all about?

Back in the day it wasn’t like this and when I say back in the day, it isn’t ancient history, basically before the Premier League rebranding and maybe even just previous to the last twenty years or so, when things have got really bad in terms of a small number of clubs creating a financial situation where it is all but impossible for other clubs to compete.

Where so many ‘fans’ of these self-entitled clubs are ‘supporters’ who simply choose a club that has a history of winning trophies in recent decades, then sit in their bedrooms hoping to tick off trophy after trophy to add to ‘their’ total.

What I have found especially bizarre when it comes to fans of other clubs mocking Newcastle United fans for celebrating ‘too much’ this League Cup triumph, are those who support clubs who never win anything themselves, indeed, I have seen supporters mocking NUFC fans, who follow clubs that have never won something in their entire club history!

These are arguably the saddest characters of all.

Surely they should be inspired when they see say West Ham United or Newcastle United winning something, that it is possible for dreams to come true AND then fans of these clubs telling whoever wants to listen just how special it feels…