Premier League Title Journey: 20 Iconic Moments Captured
The Premier League trophy is back in red and white, and while the players have scattered for the summer, one man has been reliving every step of the journey frame by frame.
Club photographer David Price spent the season in the thick of it – from Old Trafford in August to the confetti-soaked chaos of Selhurst Park in May. Now, with the boots hung up and the pitches resting, he’s picked out 20 images that, for him, tell the story of a title-winning campaign.
This isn’t just a gallery. It’s a season, frozen in flashes.
20. Hello Hincapie
It starts quietly, behind closed doors.
Piero Hincapie, mid-signing video, caught in harsh, unforgiving light. No stadium roar, no sliding tackles, just a new arrival gripping the club flag as if he’s already understood what it means. The illumination carves into the frame, picking out his features, turning a routine media duty into a statement portrait.
The season’s first hint of change comes not on the pitch, but in a studio.
19. Gabi gets away
Then the speed hits.
Gabriel Martinelli, in full flight against Kairat Almaty, tearing away from two defenders who look like they’ve been left in another time zone. It’s a clean, sharp action shot – boots off the turf, shoulders pumping, the ball seemingly glued to his stride.
Power and pace, distilled into a single escape.
18. Competitive edge
Not every battle needs a stadium.
Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka square up in a small-sided training game, the kind of knockabout that usually passes without witness. Here, though, you can see it: the grins, the intensity, the way a “fun little game” turns serious in seconds.
Title-winning teams don’t switch off. Not even on the training pitch.
17. Parade day
This is what all of it was for.
Parade buses roll through a sea of red, the air thick with noise and red smoke. Price finds a frame where every inch is crammed with supporters, faces tilted up, phones raised, flags waving. The scene is chaotic, but the picture is composed – a controlled slice of mayhem.
Nobody really knew what that day would feel like. The lens did.
16. Let it all work out
A new number 10, a new focal point.
In a rare clean moment amid a crush of cameramen, Arsenal’s fresh playmaker waves to the supporters. It looks simple, almost staged, but the reality was anything but: three shooters jostling for space, one angle that finally opens up.
One wave, one number on the back, and a new chapter in front of the home crowd.
15. The mask
Some images are inevitable; that doesn’t make them easy.
Viktor’s now-iconic mask celebration was always likely to appear more than once this season. Getting it perfectly, though, is another matter. Here, the lines are crisp, the pose unmistakable, the celebration isolated from the blur around it.
The character and the theatre of modern football, captured in a heartbeat.
14. Picture perfect
Away from the pitch, the game still finds its way into people’s lives.
Two fans stand at a window, framed by the architecture and a hand-made sign, reacting as the parade buses glide into view. It’s a small moment, almost domestic, but it lands hard – the club passing through their street, their season, their story.
Football glory, reflected in glass.
13. Under the lights
Before Bayer Leverkusen, an old piece of kit comes out of the drawer.
Price digs out a star filter and decides to gamble. The result is a striking image of Declan Rice, face edged by the glare of floodlights that explode into starbursts behind him. The light doesn’t just illuminate; it crowns him.
On nights like that, the game feels bigger than the white lines.
12. What it means
Late in the season, the margins shrink and the emotions swell.
Leandro and Cristhian erupt after Leo’s crucial goal at the London Stadium, a surge of pure release that spills across the frame. Arms flung wide, faces contorted, the kind of celebration that says as much about pressure as it does about joy.
You can almost hear the roar in the stillness.
11. Captain’s glow
Sometimes football is about luck and timing – for photographers too.
Martin Ødegaard stands over a free-kick, planted in a thin shaft of light that slices across an otherwise shadowed pitch. His number glows, the rest of the image brooding and dark. It feels almost theatrical, a spotlight on the captain while the world around him waits.
One step back, one breath in, one moment suspended.
10. Cool customer
The trophy is back, the celebrations are wild, and in the middle of it all, Eberechi Eze just… pauses.
He stands there at Selhurst Park, effortlessly composed while the Premier League title party rages in the background. Confetti, noise, movement – and Eze, cutting through it all with a look that says he’s soaking in every second.
Champions don’t always need to shout.
9. Cold on the coast
January in Bournemouth. You can feel it in your bones.
Price breaks his usual rule and goes black and white. The decision pays off. The image carries the sting of that coastal chill – breath in the air, heavy coats, hard floodlight shadows. Stripping out the colour only deepens the atmosphere.
Some nights are remembered for the result. Others for the way they felt.
8. On the board
Mikel Arteta has never been shy with his touchline emotions.
From the same Bournemouth match that produced a leaping celebration in last year’s roundup, Price picks another angle: the manager celebrating in front of the Arsenal supporters, the scoreboard looming behind him like a verdict.
Scoreline, manager, fans – all locked into one frame of shared defiance.
7. Rising highest
In a crowded box, chaos usually wins. Not this time.
Bodies everywhere, defenders scrambling, shirts tangled. And then, right in the middle of the storm, “little Gabi” explodes upwards to meet the ball. His leap cuts clean through the clutter, head thrown at the cross, timing perfect.
You don’t just see the header. You feel the hang time.
6. Chelsea dagger
Rivalries leave scars, and sometimes they leave masterpieces.
Kai Havertz wheels away, emotion etched across his face after striking a crucial blow against Chelsea. Steam lifts off his shoulders into the cold night air, catching the floodlights and giving the image an almost surreal aura.
It’s not just a goal celebration. It’s a moment of redemption, lit up in white breath and blue shadows.
5. Gold dust
When the trophy comes out, most lenses chase the silver.
Price looks elsewhere. While Stuart MacFarlane tracks the main prize, he finds Myles proudly displaying his gold Premier League patch, a quieter symbol of the achievement. The chaos swirls somewhere off-frame; here, it’s about detail.
Championships aren’t only in the medals. They’re sewn into the fabric.
4. Winning feeling
At the London Stadium, two giants stride off like conquering generals.
Gabriel and William Saliba walk from the pitch after a vital win over West Ham, celebrations still buzzing in the background. Shoulders squared, faces lit with satisfaction, they look exactly what they’ve been all season: the foundation.
Defenders rarely get the spotlight. This frame gives it back to them.
3. NLD emotions
North London derbies write their own scripts. This one painted its own picture.
Eberechi Eze covers a huge grin, trying and failing to hide the joy. Zubi stands beside him, shoulders shrugged, as if to say, “What did you expect?” Behind them, Piero and Declan Rice are on the verge of exploding into celebration.
It’s all there: relief, swagger, disbelief, delight. One frame, one derby, one city tilted red.
2. A moment in time
Some photographs carry history in the background.
A simple shot, on the surface. But behind the action stands the famous Highbury Clock End clock, a nod to the club’s past watching over its present. The composition is understated, the symbolism anything but.
Arsenal’s future is being written under an old, familiar gaze.
1. Selhurst, the summit
The season’s story runs through all 20 images, but it ends where it had to: Selhurst Park, trophy in hand, a club back on its perch.
Price’s favourites aren’t just pretty pictures. They’re checkpoints on a journey – from a new signing clutching a flag, to a captain bathed in light, to defenders walking off like champions and supporters turning streets into rivers of red.
The shutter has stopped for now. The question is simple: when the next campaign begins, what moments will be worthy of the next top 20?
