{"id":460052,"date":"2026-05-21T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:41:08","slug":"arsenal-title-winner-max-dowman-misses-training-for-his-gcses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460052\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal title winner Max Dowman misses training for his GCSEs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a> were back in training on Thursday, just two days after sealing their first Premier League title in 22 years. There was, however, no sign of 16-year-old Max Dowman, with the teenager instead sitting his GCSE exams. <\/p>\n

Dowman became the youngest Premier League winner in history<\/a> as the Gunners sealed the title on Tuesday night<\/a> when second-placed Manchester City<\/a> could only draw at Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And they are now preparing for their final game of the league season away to Crystal Palace<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Once that is out of the way, Arsenal<\/a> have a Champions League final against Paris-St Germain to get ready for on Saturday 30 May.<\/p>\n

That will be followed the next day by a trophy parade around Islington.<\/p>\n

It is not known which subjects Dowman is studying, but GCSES taking place this week include English language, business, economics and physical education.<\/p>\n

Luckily for Dowman, next week is half-term – allowing him to focus only on the European Cup final.<\/p>\n

The Gunners were also given a boost with the return of midfielder Mikel Merino, who has been out since the end of January with a long-term foot injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal were back in training on Thursday, just two days after sealing their first Premier League title in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-460052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}