Sentence examples for championship silverware from inspiring English sources

On the last four occasions the season after a British and Irish Lions tour, France have lifted championship silverware - three times as Grand Slam winners.

Bringing the fixture to the north east is a significant coup for a club whose rapid rise as a first-class county has also brought one-day and County Championship silverware, in addition to a prolific academy which has yielded talent such as Steve Harmison, Paul Collingwood and Graham Onions for the England side.

Our constant aim will be to compete for silverware and championships.

Anthony Gerrard, cousin of the Liverpool captain Steven, a former Everton trainee and a lifelong Liverpool fan, missed the decisive penalty for the Championship side to hand Dalglish silverware in his first full season back as manager.

Chelsea may have considered it the welcome end to a long dry run when in 2005 they won the league for the first time in 50 years, but CFR's title last season was their first silverware since they lifted the Transylvanian Championship in 1911.

Following Warwickshire's County Championship win, their second piece of silverware in three years, he told BBC Sport: "I've never hidden my ambition to one day coach internationally.

Their only major piece of silverware came at the 1988 European Championship.

The monopoly of domestic silverware is taken for granted in a championship chase warped by Qatari money but, aside from building a brand, the owners' target has always been a first European Cup.

He led Glamorgan to the Sunday League title in 1993 - the county's first silverware in 29 years - and played an important role in their 1997 County Championship success.

But, after four successive runners-up medals in finals (in the 2010 CB40 final to Warwickshire, as well as three successive Twenty20 final defeats), not to mention last summer's County Championship near miss, Somerset are now seriously overdue their first silverware in six years.

Before he received the silverware awarded annually to winner of the PGA Championship, Dufner's wife gave him his tin of Copenhagen dipping tobacco.