Episode 3555: Arsenal Win The Premier League
He’s done it, guys. Mikel Arteta has won the foggin etitle.
Today we laud the achievements of Arsenal and Arteta: dressing-room screecher, brainwasher, striver, innovator, touchline nuisance, inventor of quirky ways to introduce team talks, dark prophet of Premier League antifootball trends, and now – and forever – Premier League-winning manager.
We also sift through some of the many “How They Did It” pieces from today’s press in search of fresh margins of excellence, before top Gooners Jacob Hawley and Dara O’Briain give us their reactions to the end of the 22-year wait.
We still have time after to talk about Southampton getting booted out of the Championship playoffs for spying on rivals’ training. “It feels like you’ve been put on trial for murder when all you’ve done is stolen a Mars bar from the corner shop,” says an indignant Matt Le Tissier – and when has he ever been wrong?
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