Arsenal players celebrate title at Emirates at 5am

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Arsenal react to winning the Premier League title

Arsenalplayers were pictured outside Emirates Stadium at 05:00 BST after they were crowned Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years. as their celebrations continued.

Eberechi Eze posted pictures on Instagram in the early hours of Wednesday, stood outside their stadium in north London alongside team-mates Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka. Jurrien Timber.

Dutch defender Timber posted a video alongside Saka stood by a blacked out Premier League trophy at the club's training ground. was designed to light up once the team won.

"Light that up," Saka says.

"Let me tell you something. Twenty-two years, 22 years. There was laughing, there was joking, they're not laughing any more. Look, it is going to be shining, it is going to be shining bright."

In another video posted by Saka, 19-year-old defender Myles Lewis-Skelly is seen holding a champagne bottle.

"They called us bottlers," said academy graduate Lewis-Skelly. "And now we're holding the bottle."

Eze's Instagram post also included a picture of anArsenal-branded bottle in another reference to criticism the team has received for finishing second in the league for three consecutive seasons.

An Instagram story post also showed captain Martin Odegaard with a bottle in his mouth.

Arsenal's record goalscorer Thierry Henry wrote on Instagram: "Special thanks to this generation - finally now my kids saw us winning the league".

The club will hold a trophy parade around Islington on Sunday. 31 May at 14:00 BST, the day after they face holders Paris St-Germain in the Champions League final in Budapest.

On Tuesday night, fans gathered outside the stadium. nearby pubs while rivalsManchester CityplayedBournemouth, needing a win to keep the title race alive.

In the end, Pep Guardiola's side could only draw - confirmingArsenalas champions for the first time in 22 years.

As the full-time whistle went on the south coast. there was an explosion of cheer in pubs across north London asArsenalfans celebrated a moment they felt, after recent title near misses, might never come.

Arsenallegend Ian Wright, who scored 185 times for the club. won the title in 1998, was mobbed by fans as he celebrated outside the Emirates.

There were celebrations also at the Gunners' training ground.

That is where theArsenalsquad had gathered for the evening and. much as in the pubs, the final whistle was greeted by huge celebrations. Players and staff danced and hugged while chanting: "Campeones, Campeones, Ole Ole Ole!"

Last month,Arsenalcaptain Declan Rice was seen insisting "it's not done" after the Gunners lost toManchester City. But on Tuesday. with the title race decided, he posted a picture on social media of players celebrating, captioned: "It's done."

The title win came in Mikel Arteta's seventh year in charge,. underlined just what can be achieved if a manager is given time.

"Mikel Arteta's been there a long period of time. The best gift you can give a good manager is time," former Premier League goalkeeper Paul Robinson told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"Yes you can give them hundreds of millions of pounds. you have to mould that money into a team, into a dressing room, a winning side.

"You give a good manager time? There's the proof."

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WhenArsenalwent unbeaten to lift the Premier League trophy in 2003-04 - resulting in them being dubbed 'The Invincibles' - they would not have believed it would take them almost a quarter of a century to win the title again.

"I've got married, had a child, who's now a teenager,. got divorced, all sinceArsenallast won the league,"Gunners fan Matt said on the BBC Sport live text commentary page.

To finally see that long wait ended prompted some fans to mark it in different ways. some more questionable than others.

Gunners supporter Barry wrote: "I've got a can of lager from 2021 commemorating the 1971 double. I said I wasn't drinking it untilArsenalwon the league. It's five years out of date, wish me luck."

While other fans are looking to the future. the dream of a double is still on asArsenalface Paris St-Germain in the Champions League final on 30 May.

"I am confident that we are going to do it," Gunners fan Chloe said on BBC Radio 5 Live.

"PSG are very worthy opponents. But I feel there is that edge and hunger and on our day.. I feel that this is our time."

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Arsenal's win also prompted messages of congratulations on social media.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, a Gunners fan, posted on X:"22 long years for theArsenal. But finally, we're back where we belong. Champions!"

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wrote: "Congratulations toArsenal- the first London club to win the league in almost a decade. 22 years in the making."

Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton shared an image on Instagram of theArsenalteam celebrating the win with the caption: "Come On You Gunners."

While after seeing his side's title hopes ended atBournemouth, City boss Guardiola added his congratulations toArsenal.

"We were close," he said.

"On behalf of everyone atManchester City, we congratulate Mikel. all the staff, players and fans on winning the Premier League.

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