Arsenal win first Premier League title in 22 years as Manchester City draw against Bournemouth — live updates

The waiting is over. Twenty-two years, more than a generation, they have waited. They waited and wished and feared and worried and lost hope and cursed and overthought all the eventualities. And still they waited.

Nobody inside Tottenham Hotspur’s old White Hart Lane stadium on April 25, 2004, as Thierry Henry twirled his shirt around his head and led the Arsenal charge down the pitch to the emotional bearpit of an away end screaming “Champions!”, could have imagined it taking so long to feel that again.

At roughly 9.24pm on May 19, 2026 the final whistle in Bournemouth signalled an impromptu party at the Emirates Stadium. People ran in from every direction, yelling, chanting, crying, falling into fellow members of the tribe.

Fireworks, footballs, people on bikes, people with babies, people in cars tooting their horns, people with dogs, people with bottles of champagne. Highbury felt like the centre of the English football universe.