'The first in my lifetime' - Arsenal fans rejoice after shedding 'bottlers' tag

Club legend and fan Ian Wright, who helped start the party outside the Emirates on Tuesday night, was 40 when Arsenal last won the league, but for some supporters it was a new experience. "It doesn't get much better than this," 22-year-old Dylan White said. "...first time in 22 years, more or less the first time in my life.

When we last lifted the Premier League, I was about three weeks old. "It's surreal - I've never experienced this before and now we're finally here over the line, after so many years of coming so close and to celebrate with all of our friends. "I've always wanted to experience it for myself because you hear stories of Arsenal back in '89, you hear stories of the Invincibles, but getting to experience it ourselves... "We were wondering if it'd be better to celebrate it at an actual game, but doing it with all of our mates in north London last night and being outside of the ground until 4am - as you can tell, I've lost my voice. "It feels like life has peaked as an Arsenal fan." As the end of the City game approached, anticipation built for Arsenal fans - but things were even more tense 35,000 feet up in the air. One fan, Aamir, was in the dark about the score - because he was on a flight with no option of WiFi or phone signal. When the game finished, he was on board easyJet flight EZY8746 from Hurghada in Egypt, still more than an hour from touchdown at London Gatwick, so he asked the cabin crew if they could get him the score. "They came through," he wrote in a post on X , external viewed 1.7m times, accompanied with a picture of a typewritten message on a slip of paper beamed to the plane from easyJet's operations control centre on the ground. Aamir has now framed that piece of paper. EasyJet confirmed to BBC Sport that the pilot of the plane "teamed up with colleagues in our operations control centre to relay the score this fan was hoping for". For another fan, Jamie Ryan, it wasn't such a nervous wait. He touched down on a Ryanair plane at London Stansted minutes before the final whistle - so he got to celebrate right away.

Key points

• When we last lifted the Premier League, I was about three weeks old.
• "It's surreal - I've never experienced this before and now we're finally here over the line, after so many years of coming so close and to celebrate with all of our friends.
• "I've always wanted to experience it for myself because you hear stories of Arsenal back in '89, you hear stories of the Invincibles, but getting to experience it ourselves...
• "We were wondering if it'd be better to celebrate it at an actual game, but doing it with all of our mates in north London last night and being outside of the ground until 4am - as you can tell, I'…
• "It feels like life has peaked as an Arsenal fan." As the end of the City game approached, anticipation built for Arsenal fans - but things were even more tense 35,000 feet up in the air.