Inside Arsenal's mammoth 63-game season: Premier L...
Key takeaways
- It tested the club to the limit: bringing historic success with a first Premier League title in 22 years, but also agonizing failure after losing the UEFA Champions League final to Paris Saint-Germain on penalties.
- There was almost immediately a sense after losing to PSG that Arsenal will come again.
- Meanwhile, director Ben Winston wrote on Instagram: "I remember this feeling coming home from Paris in 2006 [when Arsenal lost the UCL final to Barcelona].
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It tested the club to the limit: bringing historic success with a first Premier League title in 22 years, but also agonizing failure after losing the UEFA Champions League final to Paris Saint-Germain on penalties.
Whatever the bittersweet feeling after Saturday's 4-3 shootout defeat in Budapest, only pride was on show a few hours later as fans in their hundreds of thousands lined a five-mile route around north London to celebrate a team that had clawed their way back to the summit of English football.
The Gunners' campaign has been an emotional rollercoaster for all concerned, fighting against the dual weight of expectation and history by navigating an almost unbearably tense run-in to beat Manchester City to the title by seven points in the end.