{"id":9815,"date":"2026-06-27T13:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:06:23","slug":"alex-burstow-chooses-his-favourite-pics-of-25-26-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=9815","title":{"rendered":"Alex Burstow chooses his favourite pics of 25\/26! | News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Our club photographers had a busy and unforgettable 2025\/26 campaign to work on last season.<\/p>\n

Following on from Stuart MacFarlane\u2019s and David Price\u2019s top snaps, fellow club photographer Alex Burstow has picked his favourites from men\u2019s and women\u2019s matches.<\/p>\n

In no particular order, check out his 20 best shots of our women\u2019s team and top 10 of our men\u2019s team below!<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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Alessia Russo celebrates scoring her second of three goals during the 5-2 win against Tottenham at Emirates Stadium in March.<\/p>\n

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The team celebrate in front of supporters after winning the inaugural FIFA Women\u2019s Champions Cup.<\/p>\n

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A moment away from the pitch as Olivia Smith enjoys a game of volleyball during some downtime at the pre-season training camp at Adidas HQ.<\/p>\n

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Chloe Kelly celebrates after scoring against London City Lionesses in the first league game of the season.<\/p>\n

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The team celebrate scoring against Chelsea at the Emirates in November.<\/p>\n

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Ren\u00e9e Slegers celebrates at full-time after a hard-fought league win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

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Lotte Wubben-Moy being carried by Gunnersaurus during a lap of appreciation after the final home match of the season. <\/p>\n

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Olivia Smith scoring her brilliant goal against Manchester City at the Emirates. <\/p>\n

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The celebration to follow after Olivia Smith scored against Manchester City.<\/p>\n

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Daphne van Domselaar, Beth Mead, Mariona Caldentey and Victoria Pelova of Arsenal have a chat with the match day mascots as they wait in the tunnel before the Champions League match against Bayern Munich in Germany.<\/p>\n

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Steph Catley shows her strength to hold off two Tottenham defenders during the north London derby at the Emirates.<\/p>\n

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Kim Little shows her appreciation to the Arsenal supporters after making her 400th appearance for the club in the away UWCL match against OH Leuven.<\/p>\n

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The sun shines down on Emily Fox as she runs down the wing during the league match against Brighton & Hove Albion.<\/p>\n

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One of the many group photos of the GK union as they made their way out for training! <\/p>\n

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A different angle to the usual pitchside position as Stina Blackstenius was congratulated by her teammates after scoring a late winner against Everton in the final home match of the season. This picture was taken from a remote camera which was positioned on the TV gantry in the West Stand. <\/p>\n

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Katie McCabe joins the team huddle to give her teammates some instructions just before kick-off in the final league game of the season against Liverpool at Anfield.<\/p>\n

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Team photo on the parade bus outside the Emirates Stadium before the trophy parade.<\/p>\n

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Leah Williamson and Lotte Wubben-Moy soak up the parade atmosphere from the bus as it drives along Holloway Road.<\/p>\n

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The Sun shines down on the team huddle ahead of the league match against West Ham at Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Beth Mead shows her appreciation to the fans as she is given a guard of honour after the last home match of the season at the Emirates.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Martin Odegaard lifts the Premier League trophy through a sea of red and white tape. <\/p>\n

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Mikel Arteta is thrown into the air by the players as they celebrate winning the Premier League at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n

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Gabriel being congratulated by his teammates in front of the fans in the corner of the North Bank after scoring the opening goal against Aston Villa in December.<\/p>\n

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Martin Zubimendi leaps into the air as he celebrates scoring his brilliant goal against Sunderland at the Emirates.<\/p>\n

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Mikel Arteta celebrates at the full-time whistle after victory against Burnley in the final home match of the season.<\/p>\n

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Eberechi Eze scoring one of the goals of the season against Newcastle.<\/p>\n

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The brilliant red and white pre-match tifo around Emirates Stadium before the league match against Liverpool. This was shot on a wide angle lens from a central position in the TV gantry as the players walked out before the match.<\/p>\n

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One of the parade buses driving through the streets of Islington surrounded by a sea of supporters. I was covering the parade from the women\u2019s team bus so was able to get this picture of the bus in front which some of the men\u2019s first team staff were on.<\/p>\n

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The pre-match tifo before the Champions League semi-final against Atletico as the players lined up for the anthem.<\/p>\n

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Cristhian Mosquera and Martin Zubimendi interact with fans as they walk down the tunnel after victory against Burnley in final home match of the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our club photographers had a busy and unforgettable 2025\/26 campaign to work on last season. Following on from Stuart MacFarlane\u2019s and David Price\u2019s top snaps, fellow club photographer Alex Burstow has picked his favourites from men\u2019s and women\u2019s matches. In no particular order, check out his 20 best shots of our women\u2019s team and top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}