Sentence examples for champions- from inspiring English sources

The French champions are seeking a successor to Carlo Ancelotti, who is to take up the reins at Real Madrid along with his coaching staff, having steered the French club to their first league title in 19 years and the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

The champions are certain to strengthen once again this summer – indeed, they already have with the capture of Fernando Llorente on a free transfer.

The latest case follows the Polish champions' fans displaying a large image of a pig imposed on a Uefa badge and the slogan "Because Football Doesn't Matter, Money Does".

And among the new members, they are the champions at spending money from structural funds.

England, the Under-20 world champions, had lost the first match of this year's Six Nations in Wales.

On a muggy, absorbing, oddly processional night Barcelona reached their eighth European Cup final with their first win in Munich, cruising past the champions of Germany without ever really having to thrum up through the gears.

Until Augsburg managed to beat the heavily rotated champions-elect in early April, everyone had proved little more than a quick, comforting bite.

Root knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of a punch from a fellow professional having been the subject of Warner's ire during their infamous dust-up at Birmingham's Walkabout bar during the 2013 Champions Trophy.

Ditto Leicester at Stoke and QPR at Everton and, indeed, Everton themselves: with Champions League qualification up for grabs, will Roberto Martínez commit to the Cup as fully as he did with Wigan?

But Smith's failure to make a major impact in Europe - the finest moment probably being the home-and-away defeat of Leeds United in 1992, later missing out on a Champions League final place by one point - led to the clamour for something new.

His record - two cups within six months of his appointment, a domestic treble in his first full season, a second title in 2005 and reaching the last 16 of the Champions League - set the context for a rueful but masterfully understated parting comment: "I'm sure those people who look at the facts will say that during a period of downsizing, I was reasonably successful".