Arsenal Celebrate Title Parade as Rice Leads "Ice, Ice Baby" Singalong and Lewis-Skelly Hails "New Era"

Arsenal’s Premier League title parade was a huge north London celebration, with players, staff and fans marking the club’s first league triumph in 22 years. The two-and-a-half-hour route brought out hundreds of thousands of supporters, while the men’s and women’s teams shared the spotlight across four buses in a show of unity and pride.

One of the standout moments came when Declan Rice led the crowd in a playful chant about set-piece goals, then got dragged into an impromptu singalong to Vanilla Ice’s “Ice, Ice Baby.” Rice initially resisted, but quickly joined in to the delight of the fans, later saying he loved the team, the manager and the joy the club had brought to people.

The parade had a strong symbolic edge too. Martin Odegaard, the captain who became the first Arsenal skipper since Patrick Vieira to lift the Premier League trophy, drew one of the biggest cheers of the day as he paraded the silverware at the front of the bus. The atmosphere was lifted further by red smoke, loud chants and a huge tifo reading “The Arsenal - These streets are our own.”

Josh Kroenke was also visible in the celebrations, joining in chants and urging supporters to raise the noise even higher. His presence underlined how far the Kroenke family’s relationship with the fanbase has come since the days of protest and distrust.

The party came less than 24 hours after Arsenal’s painful Champions League final defeat to Paris Saint-Germain on penalties in Budapest. But rather than dampen the mood, that loss seemed to sharpen the sense that this squad is only just getting started. Gabriel posted before the parade that the defeat was painful but that the fans deserved to enjoy the celebration, reflecting the team’s determination to move on quickly.

That feeling was echoed by 19-year-old Myles Lewis-Skelly, who called the title win “a start of a new era” and said the team would use the Champions League disappointment as fuel. His message to supporters was simple: “We’re not done.”

The day captured both the release of winning the league and the ambition of a team that now expects more. Arsenal are no longer celebrating a surprise breakthrough; they are celebrating the start of something they want to keep building.