City\u2019s draw at the Vitality Stadium on Tuesday sparked wild scenes at Arsenal\u2019s training ground, and also outside the Emirates Stadium, where thousands of supporters gathered to toast the club\u2019s success by lighting fireworks and flares.<\/p>\n
Ian Wright, who scored 185 times for Arsenal and won the title in 1998, was mobbed by fans as he joined in on the party outside the club\u2019s ground.<\/p>\n
Arsenal, runners-up in the league for the previous three seasons, had faced accusations of “bottling” their trophy bid after they surrendered the league summit in the wake of a 2-1 defeat at City on 19 April.<\/p>\n
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\nMikel Arteta has added to his previous FA Cup win as Arsenal boss<\/p>\n
But while City subsequently drew at Everton, and then at Bournemouth, Arsenal bounced back by winning their next four without conceding as Mikel Arteta \u2013 absent from the celebrations after he said he would watch the game on Tuesday night with his family \u2013 became the second former Premier League player after Roberto Mancini, who had a loan spell at Leicester City, to win the title as a manager, and claim the second trophy of his six-and-a-half-year tenure.<\/p>\n
Arteta, who rejoined Arsenal as manager in December 2019 with the club in disarray, installed a blacked-out Premier League trophy at the club\u2019s training base which would light up only when the Gunners were crowned champions.<\/p>\n
“Light that up,” Saka said in footage posted by defender Jurrien Timber on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n
“Let me tell you something. Twenty-two years, 22 years. there was laughing, there was joking, they\u2019re not laughing anymore. Look, it is going to be shining, it is going to be shining bright.”<\/p>\n
In an Instagram story, this time on Saka\u2019s channel, Myles Lewis-Skelly is holding a champagne bottle.<\/p>\n
“They called us bottlers,” said Lewis-Skelly, who like Saka, is a graduate of the club\u2019s Hale End Academy. “And now we\u2019re holding the bottle.”<\/p>\n
Some of the players even took their celebration party to the Emirates, with Eberechi Eze posting a picture outside the stadium alongside Declan Rice, Timber and Saka, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Eze\u2019s three Instagram slides also included a picture solely of an Arsenal-branded bottle in another jibe at the club\u2019s detractors.<\/p>\n
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Rice, who told his team-mates at the final whistle after their defeat at City “It\u2019s not done”, had earlier posted a picture from Arsenal\u2019s training base alongside the caption “I told you all.. it\u2019s done.”<\/p>\n
Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger featured in a celebratory post by the north London club.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman, who oversaw three Premier League titles, including the 2004 ‘Invincibles\u2019 team, said: “You did it. Champions go on when others stop. This is your time. Now, go on and enjoy every moment.”<\/p>\n
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, who had Arteta as his assistant for two of City\u2019s league titles, paid tribute to his fellow Spaniard.<\/p>\n
“On behalf of everyone at Manchester City, we congratulate Mikel and all the staff, players and fans on winning the Premier League. They deserve it, for so much hard work and effort.”<\/p>\n
Arteta\u2019s side will be presented with the trophy after their final match of the season at Crystal Palace on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Arsenal could still make it an historic double as they chase their first Champions League title against Paris St Germain in Budapest on 30 May.<\/p>\n
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