“People can complain about the way Arsenal won it, but nobody remembers how you win the Premier League — they only remember that you did. Over 38 games you earn the right to be champions. If Slot’s comments are about style or consistency, fine, but Arsenal have shown resilience, mentality and control all season. That’s what title-winning teams do.

Liverpool under Slot won it playing brilliant football the year before, Arsenal have done it differently. There’s more than one way to dominate a league. Sometimes it’s flair, sometimes it’s discipline, sometimes it’s just finding a way to win ugly when the pressure is massive.

What Arsenal have done this season deserves respect because they handled the pressure better than everyone else. In a few years nobody will care whether they won games 4-0 every week or scraped 1-0s — the history books just say champions.”