ARSENAL’s Premier League title cost formally ended on Saturday following a 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest.
Having topped the league desk for 248 days, the Gunners dropped factors for the sixth time in 10 video games to just about hand the trophy over to Manchester Metropolis.
Wright-Phillips taunted his dad with the Premier League trophy following Arsenal’s defeatCredit score: Instagram @optussport
Wright was fast to giggle it offCredit score: Instagram @optussport
The Arsenal legend was sat only a few inches from the trophyCredit score: Instagram @optussport
And Shaun Wright-Phillips, the son of Arsenal legend Ian Wright, was fast to rub it in his dad’s face.
Wright was on punditry responsibility for Optus Sport in the course of the conflict between the Gunners and Nottingham Forest.
However simply earlier than protection of the match ended, he was stunned by his son, who walked in with the Premier League trophy.
Former Man Metropolis winger Wright-Phillips positioned the silverware only a few inches from his dad, who admitted: “It’s not humorous!”
Nevertheless, the Arsenal legend didn’t seem irritated for too lengthy as he went on to speak about how proud he was of Mikel Arteta’s facet.
He mentioned: “My membership has given me a lot love and enjoyable this season, making an attempt to go for it.
“However once more, we’re arising in opposition to a monster in Metropolis and so they’ve deserved it with the way in which they’ve completed the season.”
Arsenal followers didn’t appear to share the identical view as many had been fast to lambast the group following Saturday’s defeat to Nottingham Forest.
After the match, Arteta admitted that the loss was “painful”.
He instructed Sky Sports activities: “That is soccer. It’s a very unhappy day, we now have been working for 11 months with that purpose and have been on high for therefore many days.
“We have now competed however we didn’t have sufficient.
“Now we should heal. It is vitally painful. I’ve to discover a option to raise the gamers and we now have a troublesome week forward of us.”
And goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale added: “We had just a few video games the place we dropped factors by particular person errors. These three or 4 video games is the place it’s gone improper.
“The mud received’t settle till the summer season. We’re very dissatisfied the way it has occurred however we’re proud we pushed all the way in which.
“One group in six seasons has overwhelmed Manchester Metropolis to the title. However it was our personal doing, particular person errors in video games we should always have received.”
Man Metropolis shall be awarded with the Premier League trophy following their conflict with Chelsea on Sunday.
Pep Guardiola and his group will obtain a guard of honour from the Blues previous to kick-off.