And with that, I’m checking out. Thanks for your time on what’s been a hectic, memorable and joyful/mournful day. Here once again are today’s Premier League scores, links to match reports, and the very final table. Until August, then!

Brighton 0-3 Man Utd
Burnley 1-1 Wolves
Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal
Fulham 2-0 Newcastle
Liverpool 1-1 Brentford
Man City 1-2 Aston Villa
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Bournemouth
Sunderland 2-1 Chelsea
Tottenham 1-0 Everton
West Ham 3-0 Leeds

Ian Wright says that Arteta “will go down as the greatest for us”, which I think is still a bit of a stretch given not just the success Arsenal had under Arsene Wenger but how actually brilliant they were in doing it, and they were by all accounts quite impressive under Herbert Chapman as well, but the man’s happy so I’ll give him a pass.

And now Mikel Arteta is handed a microphone:

It was beautiful. Look at the joy of the people. They’ve been waiting so long. We had some difficult moments along the way, but they are all worth it when you see that kind of reaction.

I think this year we showed an incredible connection, incredible commitment and incredible courage. Everything around us has fuelled the desire we have to go and do it. And look at that.

Everyone has played a part. We have an incredible ownership. There were tough times and that’s when you really see people and get to know people. They have committed themselves to a project and that’s what we have delivered.

You have doubts [after repeatedly coming second]. [You wonder] maybe you’re not the right person, maybe someone else has to come and do the final job. I feel a lot of joy and honestly a little bit of relief as well. Sometimes when you doubt yourself you have people around who say, ‘No, we’re going to do it and we’re going to do it with you.’

And now they have one more game, in the shape of a Champions League final next Saturday, to really do something special:

Now this shirt represents something else. We have an opportunity to write new history in our club, and I’m convinced that we’re going to do it.

Sky are now broadcasting live from David Raya’s mobile phone. Unlike his performances this season, it’s a big shaky.

A final word from Odegaard:

We’re living the dream. Winning the Premier League, being in a Champions League final. I grew up dreaming about this, and now I’m there.

Martin Odegaard has a word with Sky:

Honestly I can’t describe it. It was so special. A lot of emotions, and a lot of hard work behind it. Beautiful, beautiful day. You always have the fear that you’re not going to make it but we had belief in ourselves and even in our toughest moments we really stuck together. We just kept on fighting, and we got there in the end.

Even after [losing at Manchester City] I felt we were so strong mentally. We said to ourselves, it’s not over, and the belief was even stronger after that game. And we showed that on the pitch. There were moments in the season when we felt really down and angry and frustrated. The key was how we reacted. After those games we spoke as a team, we said what we felt, it was a really honest conversation. The way we reacted to every setback was really amazing.

On people questioning Arsenal’s “bottle”:

It’s impossible not to see it. You see it. For me personally, I don’t care what people say. It’s good when you win it and you can laugh, it tastes good.

Martin Odegaard collects the trophy, walks into position, and holds it aloft! Red and white confetti rains down, fire shoots into the air, and the champions restart their celebrations!

Ben White collects his medal with his right knee in a disconcertingly large brace.

More than an hour after the final whistle, and despite changing into a standard outplayer home shirt with “Champions 26” on the back, David Raya still has his goalie gloves on as he collects his medal.

A lot of home fans have stayed behind to watch the show. They’ve overperformed amazingly these past few seasons, but Palace aren’t likely to see too many league trophy lifts, might as well grasp the opportunity.

What looks like a waxwork effigy of Stan Kroenke has just brought the trophy out and placed it on a plinth. I’m assured that it is in fact the real Stan Kroenke.

At Selhurst Park, a quite astonishing number of people in Arsenal shirts have just entered the field ahead of the trophy presentation. The players, the coaches, the backroom team, the relatives of the backroom team, the friends of the relatives of the backroom team, the neighbours of the friends of the relatives of the [etc]

Herewith please find enclosed your final scores, your league table, and links to all 10 match reports:

Brighton 0-3 Man Utd
Burnley 1-1 Wolves
Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal
Fulham 2-0 Newcastle
Liverpool 1-1 Brentford
Man City 1-2 Aston Villa
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Bournemouth
Sunderland 2-1 Chelsea
Tottenham 1-0 Everton
West Ham 3-0 Leeds

Two more match reports: here’s something on Fulham v Newcastle, and one on Burnley 1-1 Wolves.

Jarrod Bowen has a chat with Sky. He equivocates quite masterfully about his personal future, but says that “right now my vision is to get this club back in the Premier League”:

I’m just hurt. It’s a horrible place to be. Relegation, for a club like this, it hurts. We done enough today but throughout the season we just haven’t done enough to pick up the points. You can pinpoint many things but ultimately it’s about players putting in consistent performances. Last season we were in a similar position but managed to wriggle out of it. This year we haven’t been able to wriggle out of it. The last couple of seasons we’ve been really below the standard. This season we haven’t been good enough and we’ve paid the biggest price. Ultimately we didn’t do enough to grind out results. We’ve been leading games and we’ve dropped points. I think the fight’s been there but we haven’t been there consistently enough to get points.

I’m under contract here. There’s going to be rumours, there’s going to be talk, but ultimately what I see is getting this club back in the Premier League, because that’s where they deserve to be. I’ve had some really good moments here. This is a really hard moment. You never know what the future holds, but I want to see this club back in the Premier League and right now my vision is to get this club back in the Premier League.

And finally, Louise Taylor saw Sunderland snatch a Europa League place by beating Chelsea at the Stadium of Light:

Who saw this coming? A year ago Sunderland won the Championship playoffs and were everybody’s favourite for an immediate relegation. Instead Régis Le Bris’s wonderfully resilient side have finished seventh and secured a lucrative passport to the Europa League.

This fully merited win against a Chelsea side whose own European ambitions were shredded along the way was in many ways emblematic of their season. It was a day when the second tier old boys upstaged the Club World Cup holders and Enzo Le Fée eclipsed Chelsea’s World Cup winning Enzo Fernández.

Much more here:

And Jamie Jackson watched the curtain fall on the Pep Guardiola era, even if Ollie Watkins pooped that particular party:

“Pep Guardiola!”: the two magical words for all of a Manchester City stripe came from the Etihad Stadium announcer ahead of the great man’s entrance in light-tan slacks and white T-shirt, a ‘P’ for Pep emblazoned across the left breast pocket.

The reception was rapturous. Poignant too. From a record 60,332 crowd due to the opening of the extension to the newly named Pep Guardiola Stand.

They came in the blazing sunshine and temperatures over 25C to experience three sad and fond farewells – to John Stones, Bernardo Silva and a genius, Guardiola.

Much more here:

John Brewin saw Manchester United end their season in style as Bruno Fernandes set a new record for assists:

Sussex by the sea will host Conference League football next season even if Brighton could not meet their side of the bargain. They let their fate drop from their control, making for an anxious afternoon of relying on results elsewhere and a decent 5G connection to bring good tidings. Eventually, as players stood in the centre circle, the good news arrived.

At 6.01pm European football was secured by events on Merseyside and Wearside. Manchester United, third place and Champions League football long in the bag, in the first game of Michael Carrick’s reign as permanent manager, had dazzled in the sun. History was made by Bruno Fernandes supplying a record 21st assist of the Premier League season.

Much more here:

Andy Hunter watched Mo Salah and Andy Robertson reach the end of the Anfield road:

Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson were given in-game guards of honour as they said farewell to Liverpool. The tears streamed down the former’s face when he stood in the centre circle after the final whistle and absorbed the enormity of the moment. They leave behind a club that secured Champions League qualification on the final day of a uniquely challenging season, but could have been staring at another defeat but for Dango Ouattara’s late miss for Brentford.

Ouattara put a free header wide with Alisson’s goal at his mercy with practically the final touch of the season. Keith Andrews’s team would have qualified for Europe had he found the target but were left to ponder what might have been. Not that Brentford merited victory.

Much more here:

Ed Aarons got to see the champions bag one more win:

This was an occasion for Mikel Arteta to savour. With owner Stan Kroenke watching on from the stands on a rare visit to see his team in the flesh, Arsenal celebrated being crowned champions for the first time since 2004 by recording a comfortable victory over a Crystal Palace side who also have a European final on their minds. Max Dowman became the youngest player ever to start a Premier League game at the age of 16 years and 144 days and played his part, as goals from Gabriel Jesus – on what could be the Brazil striker’s last appearance – and Noni Madueke rounded off a memorable campaign for Arteta and his side.

Much more here:

David Hytner saw Spurs save themselves with a narrow victory over Everton, taking themselves in the process of the bottom of the at-home table:

It was a question of dignity, according to Roberto De Zerbi, which was certainly a valid starting point. But for Tottenham, it was so much else besides. Reputations. Livelihoods. The very future of the club. Everything was on the line because the consequences of a first relegation from English football’s top division since 1977 did not bear thinking about. Even if everybody had thought about them all the same.

It was impossible to ignore the feeling of foreboding. It was there as the Spurs fans made their way to the stadium, which has been a house of horrors for them in the Premier League this season. No club in the division had a worse home record than them at the start of the day. It was there throughout the game, rising exponentially in the second half as West Ham, needing to beat Leeds at the London Stadium to make it very interesting, scored three times. And it hammered on in the 12 minutes of stoppage time; only nine had been signalled.

Much more here:

Jacob Steinberg watched West Ham play their final Premier League game of this season, and a while beyond that:

As the minutes ticked away and the trap door widened, the home crowd wanted everyone to know who they blame for West Ham’s relegation. They were united in their disdain for David Sullivan, the club’s shortsighted owner, and spent the final moments of a dreadful season showering him with abuse.

Sullivan watched from the directors’ box, perhaps contemplating how it has come to this point, but the answer is his refusal to relinquish power. This is his mess. West Ham have dropped into the Championship for the first time since 2012, a 3-0 victory over Leeds on the final day not enough to lift them out of the bottom three at Tottenham’s expense, and as the club’s largest shareholder and most influential individual it is Sullivan who must accept much of the blame.

Much more here:

Ben Fisher was at the City Ground to see Bournemouth frustrated in their pursuit of Champions League football. Here’s his report:

There was an inflatable miniature plane bobbing around the Bournemouth away end and, for long periods, their unlikely Champions League dream was on. The Europa League will have to suffice. Andoni Iraola, whose name was serenaded on loop approaching the final whistle, will exit the stage having led Bournemouth to sixth, their best finish, a record points tally of 57 and having secured European football for the first time in their history. It doesn’t sound too bad.

Bournemouth’s result at Nottingham Forest was quickly rendered redundant by Brighton imploding at home to Manchester United but Aston Villa’s shock win at Manchester City and Liverpool’s failure to beat Brentford denied Iraola the perfect ending. This draw at Forest, who led through a Morgan Gibbs-White free-kick, does mean Bournemouth completed the second round of fixtures unbeaten, a run that goes back to the tail of last year.

Much more here:

And that is the final whistle of the final game of the Premier League season. Here are your headlines:

• West Ham have been relegated despite a convincing win over Leeds

• Spurs saved themselves by beating Everton 1-0

• Bournemouth and Sunderland will play in the Europa League, the former unable to catch Liverpool after draws both at Anfield and for the Cherries at Nottingham Forest, and the latter securing a 2-1 home win over Chelsea, who finish 10th

• Brighton will play in the Conference League despite losing 3-0 at home to Manchester United, after neither Brentford failed to win and Chelsea failed to get a point

• Wolves end the season in last place after drawing 1-1 at Burnley

The table in full:

6.08pm Spurs seal their first home win since December, and it’s enough to keep them from the Premier League trap door and condemn West Ham to the drop!

6.06pm A miracle save at Spurs, where an excellent shot by George is kept out by Kinsky!

6.05pm A winning end to the season for Arsenal, and with Manchester City losing their final fixture they’ll finish seven points clear at the top!

6.04pm Huge celebrations now for both sides and all fans at Brighton: Brentford’s failure to beat Liverpool means it’s Conference League football for the Seagulls next season. But it’s the Europa League for Sunderland, who have vaulted to seventh as a result of beating Chelsea today!

6.01pm It’s all over at Anfield. Liverpool will play in the Champions League next season. Brentford will not, and miss out on Europe altogether!

6pm Incredible miss at Anfield! Janelt crosses from the left, and Outtara is unmarked in the middle. Can he just pick a corner and head it in? No he can’t!

6pm An outstanding performance to end an outstanding most-of-the-season for United, who have been the best team in the land since Michael Carrick’s appointment, initially as caretaker, in January and were certainly the best team in Brighton today.

5.57pm The final whistle goes at West Ham, where the home side have won in style, but their players drop mournfully to the turf. Spurs remain 1-0 up, and Everton – still no shots on target – have to score twice to turn things round!

But from the corner West Ham do score! It’s played, eventually, to Wilson, 20-odd yards out, and he rifles in an excellent shot that is further assisted by a deflection as it flies in!

90+4 mins: Brilliant save by Darlow to prevent a third West Ham goal! Wilson had a ludicrous amount of space on the right, cuts in, cuts inside a bit more, and shoots towards the far post, but Darlow throws out an arm to turn it behind!

5.55pm Another goal is ruled out, this time for Pino of Crystal Palace, whose shot takes a slight deflection off the offside Guessand on its way in.

5.52pm Into stoppage time at West Ham, where there’ll be about four minutes of it. At Spurs there’s another four minutes of normal time to deal with.

5.51pm A lovely turn by Phil Foden is followed by a brutal left-footed shot into the roof of the net, but he was offside so it won’t count.

Jeremy Pino curls in a lovely cross with his right foot from the left flank, Kepa comes for it and doesn’t get close, and Mateta turns it in!

5.48pm A penalty shout at Spurs, as Pape Sarr dances into the area before going over Iroegbunam’s leg. But it’s a pretty obvious dive, Michael Oliver isn’t buying it, and Sarr ends up in the book.

5.45pm Liverpool bossed the first half at Anfield and should have wrapped the game up before half-time. But they’ve been distracted by their farewells – Andy Robertson the latest to get a standing ovation – and Brentford have not just equalised, they’ve taken control. A point of information from Peter Kelly, though: “Curtis Jones not celebrating – not because of his relationship with Slot, much more likely it’s because he thought it was offside.”

Goal of the day, surely! This is just a beautiful long-range curling effort from Tom Cairney, and there’s nothing Pope can do about it as it dips into the corner!

Classily taken by Bowen! West Ham win the ball in midfield, Mateus Fernandes plays an excellent quick pass through for Bowen, who runs down the right before drilling past Darlow!

5.39pm Another guard of honour at the Etihad, this time for John Stones. City are losing a couple of great players, as well as this match.