Arsenal star Eberechi Eze has enjoyed having a good laugh at Manchester City's expense after a viral meme was flipped on its head when the title race was decided
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Eberechi Eze found a Man City bottle meme hilarious(Image: TNT Sports)
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Eberechi Eze has enjoyed Arsenal turning the 'bottle job' accusations from Manchester City supporters on its head. The Gunners secured their first Premier League title in 22 years on Tuesday, ending a run of three straight second-place finishes.
City's failure to beat Bournemouth confirmed Mikel Arteta's side as champions ahead of the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday. It allowed the Arsenal players to party into the night at the Emirates Stadium.
Eze was among the players seen at the Gunners' stadium around 5am in the morning on Wednesday, sharing the historic moment with supporters who perhaps thought the day might never come.
Victory was particularly sweet for Arsenal, given the frequent accusations that they lacked the mental strength to get over the line. There were wobbles earlier in the season and a City fan pretending to drink from an Arsenal-branded bottle went viral last month.
But while City supporter Tal Rehman's move got him 10 minutes of fame when he was showed live on Sky Sports, it ended up backfiring. He has since been turned into a new meme of him as a sky blue plastic bottle, which Eze has described as "the funniest photo of all time".
"Do you know what makes it so funny? It's the top of his head," Eze told TNT Sports while laughing his head off. "It's the way the bottle is attached to the top of his head.
"He knows it's all love, man. I don’t mean any malice with this but, brother. You could spin the top of the bottle on his head. Where are his legs!?"
After composing himself for a second, he added: "Massive love to him because it's all banter and it's all part of the game, all part of football. And I like how he's done it. I don’t know his name, I don't know who it is but credit to him."
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The meme has been flipped on its head
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Eberechi Eze found it hysterical
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Eze isn't the first Arsenal player to poke fun at Man City. Bukayo Saka shared a video of Myles Lewis-Skelly holding a bottle of Champagne saying “They called us bottlers,” before Saka replied: “Now we’re holding the bottles.”
Piero Hincapie was also shown drinking from the same kind of Arsenal-branded bottle during their title celebrations, while Gabriel Magalhaes shared the meme of the Man City fan on his Instagram stories.
Rehman himself has attempted to brush it all off. “First and foremost, congratulations to Arsenal,” he told Sky Sports. “You have won the league. Well done. It’s killing me to say it but there is no bitterness in me.
“My bottle prank, some of you have taken it in a really good way, which is what it was about. [It was] banter. Those of you who have taken it in a negative way need to try to look inside yourselves and understand the word ‘banter’.
“They [the Arsenal players] are only getting me back because I am in their heads rent-free. That image will be there for God knows how long. I think I motivated them and I apologise to anyone who didn’t want Arsenal to win the league.”
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