Watching Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta and his team lift the Premier league Trophy in front of all us Arsenal fans worldwide and finally trusting the process was vindication for those fans that supported a manager in his first job and a first time captain Martin Odergaard of a giant club like Arsenal, for the detractors’, naysayers and haters we shall keep them irrelevant and not mention them. All we can do is celebrate as a community and a fanbase globally that the 22 year wait and mission to be champions again is complete, and the new chapter for the next evolution of this dynasty begins. A Football Club of class, culture, grace. In a sport sadly marred with corruption, allegations of high profile teams cheating, scandals, state backed super clubs, toxic online fandoms, clickbait, rage bait, decline in quality of mainstream media bias of football headlines becoming unfortunately more relevant, as many in the industry have noted including fans and neutrals, which has coincided with the rise of independent content creators. I believe Arsenal stands as a beaming light which is organically backed, with history, tradition and heritage, with fans from around the world on every continent and high profile celebrity fans such as Anne Hathaway, Charlie Cox, Aaron Pierre, Idris Elba, Daniel Kaluuya, Nicholas Galitzine, Wrestler-Mariah May/Blake Monroe, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gemma Chan, Spike Lee, Mayor of NYC-Zohran Mamdani, British PM Kier Starmer, Brendan Hunt, Mark Strong and many more.
Arsenal football club have evolved into a cultural and global brand, storytelling, which has garnered emotional loyalty to both women’s and men’s teams around the world in Arsenal Football Clubs 140 year old history. The Empire state building in New York City was lit up in red lights to celebrate the teams championship winning feats, proving there are things that money cannot simply buy such as the human spirit and communal connection. Such as multiple English young players being brought up from Arsenal’s Hale End Academy and being champions this really connects the supports to the team such as Ethan Nwanieri, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Bukayo Saka, Max Dowman and Ebereche Eze mixed with other young bought from other clubs in recent years such as Noni Madueke, Benjamin White and (Vice Captain) Declan Rice. Including star defenders such as Brazil’s Gabriel, France’s William Saliba, Riccardo Califiori from Italy, Dutchman Jurien Timber along with star goalkeeper Spain’s David Raya and Swedish Sriker Viktor Gyokeres who wears the number 14, scoring 14 league goals which helped Arsenal win their 14th league championship in the clubs history, these stats were not made up, must seem like a script from a Hollywood sports movie.
Metropolitan police confirmed according to reports that 1.5 million people attended the trophy parade in North London, the biggest attendance in English Football History. This wasn’t just a football parade this was a takeover proving that Arsenal are the biggest supported football club on the planet, I was there to witness it and what a honour it was, North London was indeed red, only 24 hours removed after the teams heroics in a European Cup final in Budapest. Fans travelled from different corners of the world to come and celebrate. There is no other football institution in the world that moves the culture like Arsenal fans has shown, and hearts of fans around the world as the celebrations in London and the UK. This has been repeated in Africa, Asia, North America, and more. What Arsenal Football Club from everyone else is that it’s more then a football club, it connects people on a level that of the human spirit which has amazed, shocked the world and made everyone look at there own identity and connections with their own fans.
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