Between Thoughts -Intellectual Musings

An Ode to the Champions

Arsenal FC · Premier League Champions 2025/26

I. THE ANTHEM RISES
Arsenal  forever,
these streets were always ours.

From Islington’s red brick and morning air,
from Highbury’s ghost and the Emirates’ roar,
we carried this hymn like a lantern through years
twenty-one years of hunger and more.

Louis sang it first on a corner of the borough,
a working man’s love letter stitched in sound

North London forever
Arsenal forever
and now the whole world feels the ground.

II. ONE-NIL TO THE ARSENAL
They said we were beautiful but brittle.
They said the title was not ours to keep.
They said City would swallow us whole
in the grinding machinery of sleep.

But we beat them at the Tottenham ground
four unanswered, a statement, a fact.
We put Chelsea away. We put Fulham to bed.
We kept our nerve. We kept our compact.

One-nil to the Arsenal
one-nil to the Arsenal
that is how empires are built:
with clean sheets and cold will and belief.

Eighty-two points on the board.
Four clear of the City machine.
Twenty-five wins in thirty-seven played
the most clinical Arsenal the league has ever seen.

III. WE ARE INVINCIBLE
We’re the North Bank, we are invincible!
Not because we never stumbled
Bournemouth stole three points in April’s rain,
and City answered back with two at their own ground,
even champions must learn to carry pain.

But a champion is not who never falls.
A champion is who rises, resets, returns,
who goes to West Ham when the season’s nearly done
and finds the one goal that confirms, that earns.

Burnley. Monday night. One-nil again.
The last home hymn before the final bow.
Arsenal forever
not a dream anymore. A vow.

IV. CODA.  FOR EVERY FAN WHO WAITED
This one is for the father who stood
in the terraces when Thierry was young,
who told his children: one day, we will lift it again,
and kept that promise tucked beneath his tongue.

This one is for Islington’s streets,
for the Borough of Arsenal, red and white,
for every South  African Gooner
who set an alarm at 3 a.m. through the night.

Arsenal  forever
sing it now, sing it loud, sing it long.

The title is home.
The wait is over.
The Arsenal is where we belong.


CHAMPIONS. 2025/26. PREMIER LEAGUE.
25W · 7D · 5L · 82 Points
Arsenal. Forever.

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Dr. Mzamo Masito

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