Arsenal won the Premier League!

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

Well done Gunners!

The one bloody day i dont have my car, would love to take dd down to the stadium to celebrate!

Hopefully there will be a big bus that comes around!

Hey Sal, chill out! You're sounding more bitter and twisted with each post! 😂

Go and pour yourself a glass of whatever tickles your fancy, tune in to Spotify and play Louis Dunford until your little ticker is content! 😘

Ooh, the bitter tears of people so obsessed that they have to come on to a thread about a team they supposedly hate!

Bathe in them!

I bet one of them is the chap who has earned the distinction of having his own hashtag on Bluesky - #bottlecunt !

Good luck getting there. It might be worth contacting the club, as they are usually very good with arrangements for people with special needs, so they might be able to have a spot for you at the stadium.

I'm hoping to go up there. The last time I was able to go to the parade was when we won the Cup double in 1993, I was living in the area at the time. It was a blast!

@sally037my little Archie from Bromley has supported them for the last 19 years. Hardly a glory hunter as he wasn’t even thought about last time they won.
Hes been to the emirates many times to proper prem league games.
He’s cried the many times they’ve lost it! Not really a glory hunter…
are you a Tottenham fan..???

Then why doesn’t he support Bromley or Crystal Palace then? That’s the whole point.

If you’re born and raised in Bromley with local clubs all around you but choose one of the biggest, richest and most successful clubs in world football instead, then yes, that is literally the definition of glory supporting.

The fact Arsenal hadn’t won the league during his lifetime doesn’t suddenly make them some plucky underdog story. They were still a global superclub playing in the Champions League, winning FA Cups, signing world class players, filling a 60,000-seater stadium and permanently on Sky every weekend.

That’s exactly how glory support works, people gravitate towards the big fashionable clubs because they’re successful, visible and culturally dominant. Supporting your local team through years of struggle is a completely different level of loyalty to following one of the most commercially powerful clubs on the planet.

And no, not a Tottenham fan. I just think modern superclubs attract a huge amount of glory support compared to proper local clubs. Arsenal absolutely fall into that category whether their fans like hearing it or not.

Lots of salty tears on this thread!

@DialSquare @Tollington @TheNewGaard I needed your hand hold last night when I started my thread at half time in the City game. If you remember my other thread I couldn't get Sunday off work but at least now it doesn't matter! I don't think it's sunk in yet, I keep welling up whenever I look at Instagram. I was 18 the last time this happened and I'm now bloody 40!

@sally037 if you hate Arsenal fans with a home countries accent then God knows what you'd think of my Teesside one - however the reason I don't support Boro (or my local team I won't name because outing but they're non-league and I actually did go and stand on the terraces as a teenager) is because my dad passed down his love of Arsenal to me, he wasn't even local either but his final resting place was Highbury so don't ever say we aren't true fans. Get over your fucking self

Oh and I'm going down to London to watch the Champions League final and the parade - planning to get to the pub at 11 when they open as it's first come first served so it's going to be a loooooong afternoon! And the parade I'll probably be absolutely dying and regretting my life choices but here we are...

I wonder if the Prime Minister will be going to Budapest on a 'freebie' Private Jet nice 10 seater box in the Puskas Arena right over the Semi Circle and as (Fiddlers Dam sung in 1978 for under a £1 know). It is absolutely disgusting when Arsenal have been allocated 18,000 tickets across probably 200,000 fans that the PM will no doubt be soaking in the treatment from the Arsenal Board !

200,000 fans 😂try an estimated 27 million worldwide. Take your politics and fuck off somewhere where anyone cares, we're just here to celebrate our team

We know we are in that category. But you make it sound like we don’t have any local home grown fans either. Should us local supporters stop supporting them because they are a massive club? Or is it just another dig at Arsenal? Why feel the need to come on a thread celebrating the win to tell us we’re all plastic? Does it make you feel better about yourself?

He has also supports Bromley. It’s like children, he can love both equally! Anyway, we’ve had a good year this year…. 2 league winners!

I’ve literally already said genuine local Arsenal fans exist. Of course they do. Every massive club has proper fans. My point is that clubs like Arsenal also attract armies of glory supporters and plastics on top of that, far more than local clubs ever will.

And yes, part of football is winding rival fans up when they win things. That’s the game. If pointing out that half the celebrations are coming from people with zero connection to North London takes even 1% of the shine off it, then I can live with that quite happily.

Bragging about having 27 million ‘fans’ worldwide isn’t the flex you think it is, it just confirms Arsenal are a gigantic global brand attracting millions of casuals, tourists and glory supporters with zero connection to the club, area or culture.

That’s precisely why proper local football fans roll their eyes at modern superclubs. Football used to be tribal and community-based. Now it’s someone in Singapore tweeting “North London is red” while someone from Surrey who’s been to three games in their life tells actual match-going fans how massive Arsenal are.

Congratulations on becoming the Disney version of a football club.

@sally037 zero shine off my celebrations, just showing yourself up for the bitter person you are. I'm guessing your team (local of course) doesn't win much? But even if they did I wouldn't think for one second to come on a thread about it and start slagging them off, or think I was doing anything to take the shine off... you need to grow the fuck up love

Well it’s not coming across as a wind up. I love a bit of banter. This just sounds bitter.

@sally037Are we allowed to support England (or other national squad) or do we have to have been to every match to do so…..🤔.

And Bromley used to have 500 people going to their matches. They were sold out at the end of last season . I assume you’ll moan the extra 4k supporters were also glory hunters and not genuine supporters too.

Not remotely comparable.

An extra few thousand locals getting behind Bromley after a promotion push is organic community support for an actual local club. That’s football culture working exactly as it should.

Arsenal gaining millions of fans worldwide because they’re a globally marketed elite club winning trophies and constantly on TV is a completely different phenomenon. One is local people becoming engaged with their community club, the other is brand attraction.

You’re comparing a local pub getting busier after a good review with McDonald’s opening another branch.

I wonder how many people from outside the local area will be doing the same? I already know several families planning to travel in (from St Albans, Herts, Essex)

I'm a lifelong Arsenal fan and Islingtonian but wondering how the borough is realistically going to manage an unprecedented number of people at the parade (and if it will be at the detriment of us locals)

Of course there’s bitterness in football rivalry, that’s half the point. You think rival fans were shedding tears of joy for Arsenal winning the league?

What rivalry? Sounds like you support someone who hasn’t got a chance of winning the league.

Bitter tears, that's all. Thinks it's winding us up, but showing herself to be a sad case. Just scroll on by...

I am not an Arsenal fan but congratulations Gooners and enjoy!!

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