David Price's Best Moments of Arsenal's Title-Winning Season
From Old Trafford’s August glare to Selhurst Park’s golden haze in May, David Price had the best seat in the house for a season that ended with Arsenal hands on the Premier League trophy. Now, with the campaign finally at a standstill, the club photographer has done what every supporter does in their own way: rewound the year and picked out the moments that refused to fade.
Not goals. Not results. Moments. Light, shadow, faces, flags, steam, smoke – the small details that tell the bigger story.
Behind the curtain
It starts quietly, away from the roar. “Hello Hincapie” is no blockbuster celebration, no last-minute winner. It’s Piero Hincapie caught mid-signing video, the harsh studio light slicing across him as he grips the club flag. It’s the sort of scene that usually lives only in slickly edited content. Here, stripped back, the raw light and the simple prop say everything: a new chapter, frozen in one sharp frame.
From there, the lens moves to the pitch and the familiar blur of red breaking free. “Gabi gets away” captures Gabriel Martinelli exactly as opponents fear him – a streak of speed and power, pulling clear of two Kairat Almaty defenders. No clutter, no chaos. Just a clean, ruthless image of separation, of a forward too quick for the frame and the men chasing him.
Not every favourite comes from matchday intensity. “Competitive edge” is Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka, locked into a playful pre-training game that turns serious in a heartbeat. No crowd, no stakes, yet the expressions tell you why they thrive when it matters. Even the warm-ups turn into battles.
The city turns red
Then comes parade day. Price has seen title processions before, but this one hits differently. “Parade day” isn’t about a single star or a trophy in the foreground. It’s about the crush of humanity, the streets packed so tight that every inch of the frame is a sea of faces and flags, red smoke hanging thick in the air. You can almost hear it – the horns, the chants, the disbelief. This is what winning looks like from ground level.
The new number 10 gets his own moment in “Let it all work out”. Surrounded by cameras, jostling for the same angle, Price somehow finds a clean line as he waves to the Arsenal supporters. It’s simple, almost old-fashioned: a player, a shirt number, a gesture to the crowd. No pyrotechnics needed.
“The mask” brings the theatre. Viktor’s trademark celebration, the one everyone knew would surface again and again, finally lands perfectly in the lens. The joy is in the precision – a clean, unobstructed shot of an image that had lived in supporters’ heads long before the shutter clicked.
Not all the best frames are about players. “Picture perfect” is two fans, a handmade sign, and a window that just happens to frame them as the parade buses roll into view. They aren’t on the pitch, they aren’t on the bus, but for a split second, they’re the whole story.
Under lights and under pressure
Some of Price’s best work comes when the floodlights take over. “Under the lights” owes as much to a forgotten piece of kit as to the occasion. Before Bayer Leverkusen, he digs out an old star filter and gambles. The result: Declan Rice, close enough to feel the intensity, haloed by the floodlights behind him. The beams break into starbursts, framing his face, turning a routine pre-match moment into something cinematic.
As the season tightens, the stakes seep into every frame. “What it means” catches Leandro Trossard and Cristhian Romero in an explosion of emotion after Leo’s crucial goal at the London Stadium. No time to pose, no space to breathe – just bodies colliding, faces contorted, the kind of visceral release you only get when every point feels like a verdict.
Then there’s “Captain’s glow”. Martin Ødegaard stands over a free-kick, and luck does the rest. A thin shaft of light cuts across the pitch, landing perfectly on his number while the rest of the scene sinks into shadow. One beam, one captain, one moment where the armband seems to carry its own spotlight.
Cold nights, sharp edges
Not every standout image is drenched in colour. “Cold on the coast” takes a January night in Bournemouth and drains it to black and white. The decision suits the evening – you can almost feel the chill, the breath in the air, the bite of winter. Stripped of colour, the scene becomes about texture and temperature, about how football feels when the glamour gives way to grit.
Mikel Arteta, ever the emotional barometer, gets his own entry in “On the board”. Price had already immortalised his leap of joy from the same fixture in a previous season’s collection. This time, the focus is on Mikel celebrating with the away fans, the scoreboard looming behind him like a receipt. The numbers tell the story, but his reaction gives it life.
In “Rising highest”, the chaos of the penalty area takes over. Bodies everywhere, limbs tangled, defenders grappling. Amid it all, there’s “little Gabi” – Gabriel Jesus – somehow climbing above the rest to meet the ball. It’s a crowded frame, but your eye finds him every time, suspended for a heartbeat above the mess.
“Kai’s Chelsea dagger” cuts in a different way. Kai Havertz’s face does most of the talking – the raw, unfiltered emotion after striking against his former club. Yet it’s the detail that elevates it: steam rising off his shoulders, catching in the floodlights, turning exertion into something almost spectral. A player burning up under the lights, in every sense.
Gold, glory and the North London edge
When the trophy finally arrives, the instinct is to chase it. Stuart MacFarlane follows the silverware; Price looks elsewhere. “Gold dust” finds Myles Lewis-Skelly proudly showing off his gold Premier League patch, a quieter symbol of supremacy away from the scrum around the cup. The patch glints, understated but definitive. Champions don’t always need the trophy in the frame.
“Winning feeling” is more straightforward, and no less powerful. Gabriel and William Saliba stride off the London Stadium pitch, two towering centre-backs wrapped in victory after a huge win over West Ham. Their celebrations aren’t wild, but they’re unmistakable – the look of defenders who know they’ve done their job on a night that mattered.
The North London Derby brings its own brand of chaos, and “NLD emotions” bottles it. Eberechi Eze, hand over his mouth, trying and failing to hide a huge grin. Zubimendi, shoulders shrugged, as if to say, “What did you expect?” Piero Hincapie and Rice on the brink of going absolutely wild. It’s a single frame loaded with subplots, the joy and disbelief of a derby afternoon that lived up to its billing.
Not every image screams. “A moment in time” doesn’t need to. It’s a simple shot, anchored by a familiar shape: the old Highbury Clock End clock in the background, a nod to history as the present unfolds in front of it. One frame, two eras, the past quietly watching over the new champions.
Across 20 pictures, Price doesn’t just chart a title-winning season. He maps the emotional geography of it – the quiet rooms, the frozen nights, the boiling derbies, the confetti-choked streets. The goals will live forever in highlight reels. These are the fragments that make the season feel real.
