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Arsenal FC trophy parade: Date, start time and route after Gunners clinch Premier League title

Arsenal FC trophy parade: Date, start time and route after Gunners clinch Premier League title

Published by Sam Flores

After beating Burnley 1-0 on Monday night to move five points clear at the top of the table with only one game remaining, Arsenal’s hopes of wrapping up the title before facing Crystal Palace away on the last day of the season rested on events at the Vitality Stadium on Tuesday, as rivals Manchester City faced a tricky must-win trip to high-flying Bournemouth. Eli Junior Kroupi broke the deadlock shortly before half-time with a stunning curling finish, leaving City needing to find two goals without reply to stop the celebrations in north London. Erling Haaland smashed home deep into second-half stoppage time to give City hope, but it proved to be too little, too late as their 1-1 draw confirmed Arsenal as Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years – since the famous ‘Invincibles’ season of 2003/04 under Arsene Wenger. Arsenal players celebrate with fake trophy Getty Arsenal trophy parade date, start time and route Arsenal’s trophy parade will take place on Sunday May 31, 2026 – the day after Mikel Arteta’s …

French political title Contexte hits first profit on revenue of €12.9m

French political title Contexte hits first profit on revenue of €12.9m

Published by Sam Flores

Contexte homepage, EU edition on 15 May 2026 After a year of slowing down investment and expansion into the EU market, French policy title Contexte has reached profitability for the first time without subsidies. The French media brand, which launched 12 years ago, reported net profit of €268,000 in 2025, excluding grants, on revenue of €12.9m (up 21%). The title sells itself on a source of “in-depth political news for you to take action on the world”. It says: “We are radically independent and wholly owned by the team. No advertising, no sponsorship and only one revenue model: subscription.” Contexte covers French public policy across eight verticals including: powers (decision-makers and the legislature), energy and tech. It expanded into English-language reporting in 2025. Jean-Christophe Boulanger, CEO and founder of Contexte, said the company’s first decade was just focused on growth – “so we invested everything we could, basically”. Contexte generates 100% of its revenue from subscriptions, with no advertising revenue, and now has 16,000 paying readers spread across 1,700 organisations according to its 2025 accounts. …

Local newsletter network The Lead buys Stoke-on-Trent title

Local newsletter network The Lead buys Stoke-on-Trent title

Published by Sam Flores

Helen Dalley, Luke Beardsworth, Mike Harris, Ed Walker and James Routledge of The Lead and The Knot. Picture: Submitted The Lead, which runs a growing regional newsletter network, has bought Stoke-on-Trent-based brand The Knot. The Lead already has titles based on Substack covering Blackpool, Lancashire, Southport and Calderdale, and recently expanded outside the North of England into the South Wales Valleys. It won the Newsletter of the Year (Specialist/Regional) prize at Press Gazette’s Future of Media Awards last year for its “wonderful example of local news journalism fighting back with original reporting, and an eye to rebuilding a local news ecosystem fit for the 21st century”. It now adds The Knot, which was launched in 2024 by founder James Routledge to provide “independent, quality and optimistic journalism” for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. The brand is run on Substack and has a mix of free and paying subscribers. [Read more: Press Gazette recently profiled growing Staffordshire news magazine The Signal] Routledge, who will continue to advise the brand, put out a call for support in March looking …

Manchester City’s title hopes extinguished with draw at Bournemouth

Manchester City’s title hopes extinguished with draw at Bournemouth

Published by Sam Flores

BOURNEMOUTH, England, May 19 : Manchester City’s Premier League title dreams were snuffed out on England’s south coast on Tuesday with a heartbreaking 1-1 draw at Bournemouth that handed Arsenal an unassailable lead at the top, and their first league trophy after a 22-year wait. Needing victory to keep alive the race ahead of Sunday’s season finale, City were undone by Eli Junior Kroupi’s brilliant first-half strike at Vitality Stadium, extinguishing City’s hopes of a seventh league title for Pep Guardiola in what is expected to be his final season after a glittering decade as manager. “The players gave everything, absolutely all of the season fighting through difficult, difficult, difficult circumstances until the end,” Guardiola told Sky Sports. “We were close to arrive in the last moment but on behalf of all Manchester City and my team, we congratulate Arsenal and Mikel (Arteta) for this Premier League. They deserve it.” The draw left City on 78 points, four behind Arsenal. Bournemouth – unbeaten in 17 league games and sixth on 56 points – secured European …

Relentless Rice’s horsepower propels Arsenal to title

Relentless Rice’s horsepower propels Arsenal to title

Published by Sam Flores

LONDON, May 19 : As Arsenal’s players slumped on the pitch last month having seen rivals Manchester City effectively wipe out what a couple of weeks earlier had been their nine-point Premier League lead, Declan Rice was caught on camera hollering: “It’s not done!” Fast forward and thanks in no small part to the 27-year-old dubbed “the horse” by Arsenal fans on account of the amount of work the English midfielder gets through each game, it is done – and very much to Rice’s liking. His relentless running, pin-point set pieces and tireless tackling have been pivotal in the north London club’s first league title in 22 years – and have fully justified the record 105 million pounds ($141 million) the club spent on him in 2023. Statistically, his influence has been immense. He has played in all but one of Arsenal’s league matches this season, scoring four goals, providing five assists and completing well over 2,100 passes with a near 90 per cent success rate. Defensively, he has been perhaps even more crucial. His …