Arsenal's Premier League Title Victory Parade in Islington

North London turned red and white and refused to let go.

Arsenal’s victory parade, celebrating a first Premier League title in 22 years, became less a procession and more a collective release – two decades of frustration, near-misses and false dawns emptied out onto the streets of Islington in a single, thunderous afternoon.

Buses crawled through seas of supporters, flares bled colour into the sky, and every balcony, lamp post and vantage point seemed to carry a Gooner who had waited a generation for this. The club’s players and staff lined the open-top bus, medals glinting, the trophy never out of reach for long as it passed from hand to hand like a shared prize.

On the ground, the noise never dipped. Chants rolled down Holloway Road, spilled into side streets and bounced back again, a looping soundtrack to a day that felt like it might never end. Families arrived hours early, kids on shoulders draped in shirts far too big for them, old scarves and new shirts mixing eras of Arsenal history into one defiant, jubilant crowd.

In the middle of it all, a different kind of team went to work.

Members of the club’s Creators Club – Susana Ferreira, Josh Upton, Kya Banasko, Lily Craigen, Jahnay Fyffe, Romel Birch, Matt Dingle, Lowernorthbank and Raiyan Tafiq – moved through the chaos with cameras raised, hunting for the moments that would outlive the confetti. They weren’t just snapping the obvious shots of players with the trophy. They were chasing the smaller truths of the day: the fan in tears on the curb, the steward grinning despite trying to keep order, the stranger’s hug that felt like family.

They threaded between barriers and through pockets of supporters, climbing where they could, ducking where they had to. One minute they were pressed against the barriers as the bus inched past, the next they were turned back toward the crowd, catching the faces that told the real story – awe, disbelief, pure joy.

This was north London at full volume, and their lenses caught it all: flags draped from bedroom windows, makeshift banners hanging from pub fronts, streets that usually carry weekday traffic now swallowed by people. Every time the trophy was hoisted aloft, a fresh roar surged, phones shot into the air, and the Creators Club sharpened their focus to freeze it.

These weren’t just pictures of a parade. They were proof that a title can reshape a city for a day, that football can turn a familiar neighbourhood into something unrecognisable.

For Arsenal, the silverware will sit in a cabinet and the medals will find their places in drawers and display cases. The players will move on to pre-season, to the next challenge, to the demand to do it all again.

But the images from that day in Islington – captured by Ferreira, Upton, Banasko, Craigen, Fyffe, Birch, Dingle, Lowernorthbank and Tafiq – will carry the heartbeat of a club that finally climbed back to the summit, and a fanbase that came out to show the world exactly what that meant.