BREAKING NEWS!!! Coworkers are NOT your friends! Avoid gossip, Don't brag, Do your job, Get paid, Go home. Brooooo, keep your private life to yourself.
Today, Arsenal fans are celebrating 🥂🎈🥳🍾 Arsenal's own achievements—not other clubs' achievements like the haters do. 🔴⚪
We focus on our success, our history, and our journey. That's the Arsenal way. ❤️🤍
Louis Dunford — the man who wrote Arsenal’s club anthem, “The Angel” or “North London Forever” as you may choose to call it.
Dunford wrote the angel the song to honour his North London roots as he’s from Islington but that song resonated with Arsenal’s fanbase. It’s become an important part of today’s story.
In the buildup to the Leeds game in the 21/22 season, he was having a drink with his mates and he made a tweet about Arsenal playing the song at the Emirates. Arsenal fans saw that tweet and gave it wings.
“We were sat in the pub and my mate was going to me, “They’ve got to
play it at the Emirates,”’ Dunford told Charles Watts in an interview.
“So, as a genuine joke, I tagged Arsenal on Twitter and said “Play ‘The
Angel’. The people want it.” I was just thinking that my small following of
Twitter fans would think it was funny. And then, the next day, I woke up
and it had exploded overnight. I had over 1,000 retweets. I couldn’t
understand what had happened. Over the next couple of days I went from
having 2,000 followers to 10,000, then 15,000, then 30,000. I was like,
“Fucking hell, all this over a drunk joke!”’
The song came in at a time when Mikel Arteta was searching for things to help strengthen the connection between Arsenal fans and the club. The song was too good to miss.
Arteta played it to the players on the training ground. Dunford was invited to London Colney. He met the players and sat in the Director’s box in the Leeds game.
Dunford’s song wasn’t the first one tried as an anthem, but his song stood out, connected with the fanbase and told a story.
I wasn’t born in North London and there’s no time I listen to the whole song and don’t feel a genuine connection.
It’s the power of place, people, and genuine talent.
That was how Dunford became a permanent mention in Arsenal’s folklore.
A drunken tweet, a beautiful song, a fanbase that craved a higher purpose, and a club on its way back up.
Today, these streets are our own.
The waiting is over.
Twenty-two years, more than a generation, Arsenal fans have waited. They waited and wished and feared and worried and lost hope and cursed and overthought all the eventualities. And still they waited.
@amylawrence71 on the long, meandering road through periods of frustration, anger, despair, optimism and what it means for Arsenal to finally end their 22-year wait for a Premier League title.
FREE READ 🔗 https://t.co/eQdJ8AZitv
I couldn’t bring myself to write this until this morning. I didn’t want to do a story of the season. It’s bigger than that. It’s the story of how Mikel Arteta gave Arsenal back to the fans.
Read it later. Enjoy yourself tonight. https://t.co/OJgeDpvqQc
During a recent transfer window, a secret meeting was arranged for Mikel Arteta and one of Arsenal’s top targets. The plan was for it to be a relaxed sort of occasion.
It soon became clear, though, that Arteta was in no mood for casual chit-chat. Not long after the player arrived, the Arsenal manager asked to take him into another room. Just the two of them. No others allowed.
What followed, Telegraph Sport understands, was the most extraordinary set of noises. Arteta could be heard banging on tables, slamming on walls, jumping around the room and shouting. He had a presentation prepared, about how the player would fit into Arsenal’s set-up, and he delivered it with chest-thumping, hair-raising passion.
When the pair finally emerged, the player was wide-eyed and dazed. Almost like he had been brainwashed. He never fully explained to his advisors what had been said, but he was absolutely clear about his intentions. “I want to play for Arteta,” he told his agent.
@SamJDean looks at how Arteta’s unique methods drove Arsenal to end their 22-year wait for the title ⬇️
https://t.co/Z3a6Tk5iex