MIKEL ARTETA took over as manager for Arsenal back in 2019 and has had a huge impact on the club ever since.
The Spaniard, from San Sebastián, is so popular with supporters of the London-based team that fans have come up with a song in his honour.
Arsenal‘s song in tribute to Mikel Arteta became hugely popular during the 2022/23 football season.
In that time, the manager led his team to huge success, with the Gunners topping the table for the majority of the season.
Unfortunately, the team were unable to capture the Premier League title as Manchester City ultimately won.
The 2023/24 season kicked off in August 2023, with Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta song still going strong.
As well as being a manager for the club, Arteta is a former Arsenal player himself having signed with the team back in August 2011 on a four-year deal.
He ended up spending five years with the team and was even named captain ahead of the 2014/15 season.
The lyric’s to Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta song are:
“We’ve got super Mik Arteta,
He knows exactly what we need,
Kieran at the back, Gabi in attack,
Arsenal on our way to Champions League.”
As well as Arteta, players Gabriel Martinelli and Kieran Tierney are mentioned.
Brazilian Martinelli signed for Arsenal in July 2019 when he was 18 years old.
Tierney, meanwhile, signed for the team in August 2019 for a reported £25million.
He joined La Liga club Real Sociedad on a season-long loan in August 2023.
There are a number of other famous Arsenal chants that have been sung by the team’s loyal supporters over the years.
Here we break down some of the most popular:
The lyrics to this chant are:
“We all follow the Arsenal,
Over land and sea, (and Leicester!)
We all follow the Arsenal,
Onto victory!”
According to fans, the Leicester shout-out in this song is in reference to a series of matches that were played at Leicester‘s Filbert Street stadium in the 1970s.
This song sees fans chant the words:
“Hello! Hello!
We are the Arsenal boys,
Hello! Hello!
We are the Arsenal boys,
And if you are a Tottenham fan surrender or you die,
We all follow the Arsenal.”
Arsenal and Tottenham have had a famous rivalry since the early 1900s.
It is thought the feud began in 1913 when Arsenal moved to Highbury, just four miles from Tottenham’s White Hart Lane.
This short and sweet chant simply requires fans to chant: ” Oooh to, ooh to be, ooh to be a Goo-ner!” on repeat.
This is is one of the most popular Arsenal chants fans will hear at games.
This Arsenal chant again references the rivalry between the Gunners and Tottenham.
In this song, the lyrics are more explicit as they go:
“What do you think of Tottenham?
Sh**.
What do you think of sh**?
Tottenham.
Thank you.
That’s alright.”
This is then followed by a repeated of chant of “We hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham,” and finishes off with the line: “We are the Tottenham haters.”
