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    "name": [
      "Week 248 - Trophy"
    ],
    "published": [
      "2026-05-24T20:12:51.586Z"
    ],
    "category": [
      "weeknotes",
      "emoji-🏆"
    ],
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    "updated": [
      "2026-05-24T20:13:15.571Z"
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    "content": [
      "- Look, this weeknote is unapologetically dominated by Arsenal winning their first Premier League in 22 years. I completely understand it if you want to skip.\r\n- [It actually happened!](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c9v3jx1jmrwo)\r\n- After yet another nail-biting 1-0 for Arsenal on Monday at home to Burnley, Man City could only draw at Bournemouth on Tuesday meaning Arsenal had an unassailable lead in the table and were declared champions.\r\n- I was watching Man City's draw on TV. Both of my sons had decided to go to bed, but my guttural roar at full-time brought them back downstairs for bleary-eyed celebrations.\r\n- I found it hard to process. I was so relieved it was done. I could only sit dazed on the sofa, absorbing every video and post on social media of the team's celebrations and the hundreds of thousands of fans outside the Emirates.\r\n- Taking the boys to school the next morning in my Arsenal top, I received high-fives and smiling nods on the playground, from parents I now know to also be Gooners. The grandmother I chat to about Arsenal at C's cricket was beaming this morning. The sun is shining.\r\n- And now, writing this on Sunday evening (for a change), after watching the trophy being presented after the final match at Palace, it's sinking in. Arsenal is the constant passion that I trace through my adult life, back into childhood. From my first matches at Highbury in 1989 with my uncle, to taking my own family to the Emirates as a father. I love this club."
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