'Highest this club has been in a long time'published at 09:07 British Summer Time 8 June 2023
Fiorentina 1-2 West Ham
Bowen was also asked what it was like for Tomas Soucek and Vladimir Coufal to win in their home country, the Czech Republic: "Those boys took about 100 tickets before the game, took our players’ ticket allocation. Everything was set up for us to win it with the two Czech boys coming home, the wait we had for a European trophy. You've got to go through the process for that to happen.
"We struggled in the game a lot I thought but if anyone is talking about the game, I am not listening because we won the trophy. Highest this club has been in a long time."
And on what it means to his family: "I am a little boy from Leominster who never thought I would be here sat with you now. I'm going to celebrate with my old man, my brother. I haven’t cried yet but my dad and my brother were. It shows how much it means and how far I think I have come."