Hello and how are you? As the world starts brewing up for WW3, Arsenal take on Burnley for our penultimate game this season and our last match at the Emirates. KO 8.00pm local time.
I woke this morning feeling not too bad, (but nervous) about this one. For the whole of last week, after the torment and analysis of the West Ham game, I felt like I didn’t want to watch another Arsenal match in my life. But I will. How do you feel?
I think it’s the desperate need to win, and that each game seems to take forever, feeling as if we are playing with concrete boots on and the idea of going all this way and failing is tough to take. But it looks like it could well go down to the last day, and we all already know it means, we just have to win. Really it would be nice to chalk up five in this one and go to Palace with a spring in or step.
AWOL for the Arsenal are Merino, White, Timber! and Calafury. Beyer and Cullen are out for Burnley.
I phoned up statto HQ and they reckoned the Arsenal have an 87.7% chance of winning and Burnley 3.7% Next up, an end of season away day at Palace. SO COYG!
Mills
Well as I see it, a win tonight gives us 3 chances to win the title, We can win it by then beating palace or we can win it if City drop any points in their last 2 games. Three bites at the cherry with the big bite coming last. Palace are saying that they will play their best team against us on Sunday, so that’s disappointing, but in our hands it is. I’m of a mind that if we can’t win these last two games, we really don’t deserve to be champions. That said, I could care less if we drop points and so do City.
Try to enjoy the game and I’ll see you at the weekend.
Pedantic George.
Positively Arsenal 
I was ok all evening waiting on the result from the city game but oddly now we have won the league I’m actually shaking,
I think I’ll have a packet of jaffa cakes to celebrate
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hope loads of people from the old days come on. COYG! Brilliant feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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watch this
https://x.com/i/status/2056836660826874014
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seems the whole squad was at the training ground for the result of the city game
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That clip on X got the waterworks going Ed!
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Yay!
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All those years of suffering, and even this season was not simple at all, even City equalising so close to the end….such a feeling of relief. Joy. 22 year crazy journey. COYG!
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It took so long before my phone started buzzing, I thought it wasn’t going to happen.
ARSENAL PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2026!!!!!!
COME ON YOU GUNNERS.
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Ethan Nwaneri one of 24 players guaranteed a league winners medal, he made the 5 required appearances as did Dowman, and of course the other hale enders to qualify are Saka, Lewis-Skelly and Eze
the club gets 40 medals, to give to those that qualify by appearances and squad men like Kepa and maybe Setford, and to the coaching staff too.
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ah Mills I had to put it up when they started it with words from Wenger, it got to me.
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massive celebrations going on outside the Emirates Stadium at the moment
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me too. All those years he suffered but he still loves us. It was a great clip thanks for putting it up. COYG!
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Eze gets to lift the Premier League Title at Shelhurst Park on Sunday, what a dream come true for him, and we know the Crystal Palace fans will give him a great reception. It must be like a dream for Eze
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Mills the players are at the training ground, that is where that picture is from. Declan Rice put up some photos from it.
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Sky just put up this from the Arsenal training center
https://x.com/i/status/2056843221070741633
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oh by the way Spurs lost to chelsea, they might just still get relegated on Sunday, if they lose and West ham win then spurs go down.
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thats going to be one mthr of a party!
I havent felt like this since 89. Sheer joy and waterworks.
We did it Ed we did it, after all those bloody years mate!
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the sky post on X was brilliant Ed.
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89 was better, but yeah it was 18 years wait then, so very similar feeling with it 22 years this time. My God it can get even better in the next 11 days, Champions of Europe too has a nice ring to it, and maybe spurs relegated too. Am I being greedy. Yes yes yes I am, but you never get if you don’t ask.
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oddly Mills I’m close to tears now, as I said earlier I was totally calm during the city game waiting on the result, didn’t get overly excited at the title win, but its hitting home, and hitting home hard, the more clips of the celebrations, the players, Wenger, and the post from Xhaka and Elneny all are hitting it home.
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89 was, but this was such anxiety driven since the league cup loss, that the relief feels massive. COYG! i also want the CL Ed, even if its fkn 1 bloody 0!!! COYG!
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This video is brilliant, but it mast have been made some time ago, anyway, the backing track is epic, isn’t it Ian and Mills?
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bloody is George.
We did it mate, all those years you kept th flame burning here.
Thanks so much. Heres to all our old friends, THANK YOU GEORGE!!!!
COYG!
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https://x.com/ChrisWheatley/status/2056842906959249525
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Bayer Leverkusen tweeting congratulations to Havertz and Hincapie
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Ive got it on the American Soul label, it’s going to get some plays now
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on the medals point, Kepa, Salmon, Harriman-Annous and Kiwior were also unused subs in the Premier League this season, if the club did give Kiwior one it would be to add to his one he just won in Portugal
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Crystal Palace will give Arsenal a guard of honor on Sunday
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SCENES! Arsenal players celebrate Premier League title! https://www.skysports.com/share/13546073
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And ARSENAL will give palace 10 million in addition ons, money well spent
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I gotta go, but I’ll see you lads tomorrow. COYG!!!!!!
Been great to have been on this Arsenal league-winnng journey with you, and thanks for all the support for the blogs, its meant a lot. THANK YOU Ed and Ian. Thanks lads.
Statto HQ phoned through and said Man City have 0% chance of wining the league.
COYG!!!!!
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Arteta has become the first former Premier League player to win the Premier League as a manager
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https://x.com/i/status/2056845629385507011
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To George and all at PA – thanks for hanging in there. I’ve been watching. Congratulations Arsenal FC.
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woke up it was an Arsenal morning….
Declan Rice ” its not done yet”… IT IS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COYG!
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Well done everyone, and thanks to Mills and George and Ian and Eduardo for keeping this site going.
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Heady! Great to see you. Missed your thoughts and words. Hope youre doing well. COYG!
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Good morning, guys. Congratulations to all on Arsenal finally bringing the Premier League title home.
For so long, Arsène Wenger carried the burden of keeping this club alive through difficult years, so it feels fitting that this younger generation has now given the Emirates its crowning glory.
Those painful moments of three consecutive runners-up finishes, of coming so close only to fall short, shaped all of us in one way or another. Some supporters drifted away emotionally. Others became cynical. But deep down, we never truly stopped believing.
Credit has to go to the club for continuing to rebuild, to Mikel Arteta for continuing to learn and to the players for dragging themselves back into the fight no matter how many times they fell over.
Because eventually, the fear of failure loses its power.
When you’ve already lived through the worst outcomes, the mockery, the disappointment and the heartbreak, a strange kind of freedom comes with it. The pressure stops feeling unbearable because you’ve already survived it before.
And this Arsenal team looks like it has finally reached that point.
There’s a steeliness to them now that didn’t exist a few years ago. The football is still there, but it’s now paired with resilience, control and self-belief. They no longer look like a team searching for approval or validation, but rather one building towards something inevitable.
And now that the final step has finally been taken, those painful seasons will no longer be remembered as proof of weakness.
They’ll be remembered as preparation for what came next.
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Bloody hell, Labo, been a long time!! Good to see you! COYG!
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Likewise Mills. Great to see you kept the torch. Tell you what… if Arsenal win the big one next Saturday, there will be no denying that Mikel would have truly resurrected Arsène’s dream
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Thanks Mills. I’ve never really been away, just got utterly fed up with my ability to navigate word press so gave up trying to add any comments.
I’ve found this season compelling, draining and often completely confusing. I’ve just about watched every kick in every game in all competitions and was lucky to get tickets to see the Crystal Palace and Chelsea league games at the Emirates. It seems a long time ago since that early away win at United back in August, and I’ve definitely aged more than 8 months.
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Heady, I felt the same way about the season, hence us winning feeling like such a relief (and joy) after all these years and the long season itself, especially the last few games.
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a few tunes to keep the party going for a bit…
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