After years of struggle, Arsenal finally claims the Premier League title under Mikel Arteta, celebrating a journey filled with determination, resilience, and hope for the future
Bitter rivalries aside, it is only fair to give the newly crowned English Premier League champions, Arsenal, their flowers. Congratulations, Gunners — it has been a long time coming and, I am certain, worth the tearful and painful wait.
It is undoubtedly a truly well-deserved title for a team that has toiled so hard, not just this season, but for the past few years to reach this incredible pinnacle, having come close in two of the past three seasons in which they finished as runners-up.
In an era when managers and head coaches are so quickly dispatched by club owners when things are not going according to plan — an era of player power and cliques in dressing rooms — it gives a lot of hope that club owners can still stand behind a manager or head coach building a team from the ground up, like Mikel Arteta has done.
The club’s owners exhibited the patience of the Biblical Job when Arteta first took over the club from his compatriot Unai Emery in December 2020, with the young Spanish coach finishing that first half-season in charge in eighth place and replicating the same position in his first full campaign in 2020/21, followed by another frustrating fifth-place finish in 2021/22, ensuring the Gunners missed UEFA Champions League qualification for the third straight season of his reign.
