‘The only thing I haven’t got are the underpants. Everything else is Arsenal,” says Shane, a memorabilia and kit collector perched outside north London’s Clissold park with his daughter, Erin. Known online as Highbury Gunner JVC, the 47-year-old wore an Arsenal-buckled belt, a club tie in a player pattern and a club shirt with a red and white vintage-style duffel bag. The showstopper, though, was his bespoke jacket made from curtains by the designer Joe Brim, finished with an Arsenal medallion and watch, and yellow customised Dr Martens. A collector since the 1970s, he says: “I could complete a catalogue from the 90s; my house is like a museum.”
Favourite shirt … Liv Samuels in his Arsenal badge Hawaiian top
Hundreds of thousands of fans turned up for one of the biggest parades in English sporting history. Along a five-mile route stretching from the top of Seven Sisters road, along the Petherton and Holloway roads cutting to the centre of Upper Street, metal barriers spanned as far as the eye could see. The sound of hundreds of party horns filled the air along with beeping cars and blaring music.As the red smoke from flares drifted through the air, north London was a sea of Arsenal fits. Riders weaving up and down Essex Road on Lime bikes wore sweatshirts from the streetwear collective A-Places+Faces, while many fans streaming out of Finsbury Park station wore the derby scarf made by the industrial sportswear brand A-Cold-Wall. All indicators of the magnitude of the club’s first Premier League title in 22 years.
