It’s late September.
Arsenal head to St. James’ Park on the back of a nightmare run against Newcastle, having lost home and away in the Carabao Cup semi-final the season before. A must-win if we’re serious title contenders.
34th minute: Nick Woltemade rises highest and heads home Sandro Tonali’s cross. Newcastle lead 1-0.
Social media meltdown. Rivals rejoice. Arsenal fans agonise.
Then off the bench comes Mikel Merino.
A sublime header to level it. Arsenal go on to win.
The word on the street? That comeback, after going 1-0 down in the 34th minute, was the moment we won the Premier League.
But why 34?
Because while the 34th minute brought panic that day, today marks our 34th day of celebrating, exactly 34 days since Arsenal won the premier league title.
In the current Arsenal squad, there are 5 players who are 27 years old: Martin Ødegaard, Kai Havertz, Eberechi Eze, Martin Zubimendi and Declan Rice.
Back in 2019, Arsenal signed William Saliba for £27M from AS Saint-Étienne, a deal that has become one of the most important long-term investments in the club’s modern era.
And now the number 27 shows up again, but why?
Because it’s been 27 days since Arsenal won the league title.
In the Premier League, a club can submit a maximum of 25 senior players for the official squad registration (the “25-man squad list”).
But the question many are asking is, why 25? Because 25 in this case is exactly the same number of days since Arsenal won the league title.
At just 19, Bukayo Saka tweeted Arsenal fans: “You deserve better.”
At 24, he delivered the Premier League title… and replied with the better we deserved all along.
24 hits different it’s also been exactly 24 days since Arsenal won the league title.
It just dawned on me that without his goal against Newcastle we wouldn’t have won the league. Then it struck me that he wears shirt number 23, which coincidentally matches the exact number of days since Arsenal last won the Premier League title.
What a coincidence.
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