Arsenal have been crowned Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years.
After a season filled with knife-edge matches and at times crippling tension, Arsenal’s title-winning moment came while they were sat at home.
Manchester City needed to beat Bournemouth on Tuesday night to take the title race to the final day of the season but Pep Guardiola’s side failed to do so.
Erling Haaland’s 95th-minute equaliser was not enough to deny Arsenal, after Eli Junior Kroupi’s first-half goal.
That means that Arsenal, sitting on 82 points with a match remaining, cannot be caught and the celebrations in north London can begin.
There could yet be more to come, too. Arsenal still have the chance to win the Champions League for the first time.
Victory over Paris Saint-Germain in Budapest on May 30 would complete a historic double, making this the greatest season in the club’s history.
Arsenal wait to lift the Premier League trophy will end on Sunday, a wait that has gone on since Arsene Wenger’s Invincibles in the 2003-04 season.
The 22-year-drought endured since then is the longest period Arsenal have gone without a league title since the Second World War.
There have been plenty of near misses. Arsenal were five points clear in 2007-08 with 12 matches remaining but fell away to finish third.
In the 2015-16 season, there was again a sense of missed opportunity after finishing second to unlikely champions Leicester.
More recently, Mikel Arteta has led the Gunners to three successive second-place finishes. Arsenal have served their time and now this is their time.
Arteta and his players will lift the trophy at Selhurst Park after they face Crystal Palace on the final day of the season.
That will be a memorable occasion and one both sets of supporters can soak in, with European finals to look forward to in the week that follows.
Arsenal’s title-winning campaign has been built on defensive solidity. They have kept 19 clean sheets, securing a third straight Golden Glove for David Raya.
It has also been done the hard way. Defeat to City last month wiped out a lead at the top of the table that could have been 12 points had Arsenal beaten Bournemouth at the start of April.
Since that loss at the Etihad Stadium, Arsenal have won four league matches in a row without conceding a goal.
That has piled the pressure on City, who blinked first when they drew at Everton. Another stumble against Bournemouth has confirmed the red ribbons on the trophy.
