Mikel Arteta's Arsenal sit nine points clear of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City following a 3-0 win over Sunderland AFC on Saturday afternoon, with one bookmaker already paying out bets to see them lift the Premier League title
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Arsenal have been crowned Premier League winners by Paddy Power(Image: Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
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Paddy Power have crowned Arsenal as this season's Premier League winners, paying out early on the title race betting market despite more than a third of the 2025/26 season remaining. Mikel Arteta's Gunners secured a convincing 3-0 win over Sunderland AFC at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday afternoon to widen their lead over Manchester City to nine points at the top of the table.
Despite City still set to face Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday afternoon - and with 13 game weeks still to go - Paddy Power have already paid out on Arsenal winning the title in controversial fashion. The north London outfit were priced at 5/2 to go all the way ahead of the season, with Liverpool being 15/8 favourites and City priced at 2/1 before a ball was kicked.
With a nine-point cushion at the time of writing, Paddy Power can't see City, or any other team, leapfrogging the Gunners this season, and have in-turn made the decision to award those who backed Arsenal to win their first league title in more than two decades early.
Speaking about the decision, Paddy Power said: “We can’t promise this will stop Arsenal fans from fretting online about every single referee decision that doesn’t go their way being part of some great big conspiracy, but hopefully it will put a few minds at rest in north London at least.
"It would take a c**k-up of Tottenham-esque levels for the Gunners not to win the Premier League title from here. Surely nothing can possibly go wrong now, right?"
It was a 1hard-earned six points at the Emirates Stadium for Arsenal on Saturday afternoon, despite the scoreline sugesting otherwise - Sunderland piling on the pressure in the first-half before ultimately crumbing in the second as they chased chances to get back into the game.
Martin Zubimendi opened the scoring three minutes before the interval with a thunderous strike low and hard past Robin Roefs, before Viktor Gyokeres bagged a brace off the bench in the second 45. As a result, Arsenal end the day nine points clear at the top of the Premier League for the first time since the final day of their 2003/04 'Invincibles' title-winning season.
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