‘Arsenal have embraced everyone’: trophy parade a celebration of a community
‘Arsenal have embraced everyone’: trophy parade a celebration of a community. Watching the Premier League trophy pass by was a moment of joy for a generation that has often not had much to celebrate When the Arsenal bus turned off Blackstock Road towards Newington Green, the heaving crowd was ready.
Watching the Premier League trophy pass by was a moment of joy for a generation that has often not had much to celebrate When the Arsenal bus turned off Blackstock Road towards Newington Green, the heaving crowd was ready. It was only a brief moment, and one more than partially obscured by a drift of red smoke, but as the Premier League champions came past nobody was about to miss their shot.
The phones were out, the zoom was pinched and the moment was captured. If it was to catch the bus at another point on its odyssey around Islington, to go home, or just rejoin a picnic wasn’t entirely clear.
This was not a celebration confined to the official route of the parade. Nor, even, strictly to celebrating Arsenal’s on-field success.