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Here’s Andy Hunter’s report on Liverpool’s title win:
We’ve got a brand new liveblog running to take in these celebrations, and the reaction to Liverpool’s title win, so I’m going to wrap this one up and pass you on to that, here. Bye!
Liverpool win Premier League title – live reaction
You’ll Never Walk Alone plays out. The team and coaching staff stand on the edge of the penalty area, facing the Kop, soaking it up.
Flares go off. Dua Lipa’s One Kiss rings out. Alisson appears to have shed a few tears. Everyone’s hugging everyone else. Liverpool’s players are handed “Champions 24/25” commemorative kits.
90+4 mins: Jones shoots from 50 yards, but the ball drops to Vicario. He has it at his feet. Everyone knows the final whistle will come when he kicks it clear. Slot starts hugging people. The crowd noise goes up a level. And then he kicks it.
Liverpool are champions! Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images
90+4 mins: Some unexpected and unnecessary squabbling between Harvey Elliott and Richarlison earns both of them a booking.
90+3 mins: Postecoglou shakes Arne Slot’s hand a couple of minutes early. He knows the Dutchman might have other things on his mind come the final whistle.
90+2 mins: Now Nunez does shoot, from a wildly unpromising position on the right-hand corner of the area. It deflects behind for a corner.
90+1 mins: Into stoppage time, and Liverpool are four minutes from the title.
90 mins: Nunez is played through, runs clear from the halfway line, and he should wrap this up with a sixth goal. Instead he wraps it up with a rubbish pass to Salah, and the chance slips away.
88 mins: Salah goes down under Udogie’s challenge but the referee lets play go on. Udogie checks he’s still paying attention by giving Bergvall a shove, and this he does see.
86 mins: Salah bends in one of his outside-of-the-left-foot centres, and Udogie slides in to stop it running to Nunez.
85 mins: The crowd is singing, the sun is shining, and Liverpool are not so much playing as basking.
82 mins: Darwin Nunez, whose chances of being at his current club in August seem little better than Postecoglou’s, comes on for Mac Allister.
80 mins: Jones casually chips the ball right into the referee’s face. He takes it rather well. “What. A. Day,” writes Sam. “I’ve now detached my soul and sent it over to Anfield.””
79 mins: The ball hits a balloon just as Vicario is about to kick it, and the referee stops the game to allow the players to do some popping.
Curtis Jones and Vicario fight for the balloon. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA
76 mins: There are a lot of red balloons swirling around midfield. Djed Spence gets booed for stamping on a silver, Premier League trophy-shaped one.
76 mins: Another couple of substitutions: Luis Diaz and Alexander-Arnold go off, Wataru Endo and Harvey Elliott come on.
It looks like the title might be slipping away from Arsenal. Photograph: Jon Super/AP
74 mins: “Obviously there’s nothing in this game for Spurs but this is an embarrassment,” says Martin Gamage. “They look completely uncoached defensively and added to that Vicario’s confidence is now shot when it comes to trying to play out. Postecoglou can’t go soon enough.” The thing about this Spurs side is that they can have all 11 players behind the ball, within 25 yards of their own goalline, and they’re still extraordinarily easy to play through. That’s just disorganisation.
71 mins: No, he was not.
Tottenham progress from setting up Liverpool’s goals to scoring them. Jota’s shot deflects to Alexander-Arnold, whose cross would have gone to Salah had Udogie not got there first. Might Salah have been offside when Alexander-Arnold hit the ball, though?
Destiny Udogie adds a fifth for Liverpool. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
68 mins: A load of substitutions: Spurs take off Tel and Solanke, and bring on Wilson Odobert and Richarlison, while Liverpool take off Szoboszlai and Gakpo and bring on Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota.
66 mins: Save! From the edge of the area and bang central Salah passes to his left, and the only question is whether Szoboszlai or Luis Diaz will run onto it and have a shot. The latter was probably in a better position, but Szoboszlai gets there first and hits straight at Vicario with his left foot.
64 mins: Kulusevski runs into trouble on the edge of Liverpool’s penalty area, and after Liverpool regain possession one pass releases Szoboszlai, who runs 60 yards before moving the ball on to Salah, who cuts in and wrongfoots Vicario by shooting just inside the near post!
Salah has his goal! And he celebrates by taking a fan’s phone and using it to take a couple of selfies in front of the Kop.
The goal the crowd all wanted. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images
62 mins: Gravenberch has Liverpool’s eighth shot of the half, low and skiddy and stopped by Vicario. Spurs have had one, and that wasn’t on target, and 30% of possession.
59 mins: Salah goes down after getting a gentle nudge from Udogie. He wants a penalty – really he wants a goal, however it’s going to come, and that seems as good a way as any – but the referee is rightly unconvinced.
57 mins: Liverpool are running pretty rampant here, they are just overcomplicating or undercomplicating, taking too many passes or not enough. Salah here does the latter, cutting in, refusing to pass, determined to shoot, hitting a defender.
55 mins: Watching Spurs pass the ball out of defence is as close as sport gets to pure comedy.
Take my team, please. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
54 mins: Spurs don’t manage to get as far as the halfway line before Szoboszlai wins it back and passes to Mac Allister, who has all sorts of passing options but instead has a shot, which deflects wide.
52 mins: Liverpool win a corner on the left, from which they win a corner on the right, which is cleared.
49 mins: Liverpool should have scored a fourth! Gakpo runs in from the left, passes back to Mac Allister and ghosts into the area while nobody’s looking except the Argentinian, who plays him in, eight yards out. But Gakpo doesn’t go for goal, instead trying to tee up a non-existent teammate for a tap-in.
47 mins: Brennan Johnson is played into space down the right, but he only had that space because he was five yards offside.
46 mins: Peeeeeep! The players are back out, except for James Maddison and Archie Gray. Dejan Kulusevski and Pape Sarr are on.
This is the 120th time that Liverpool have been two or more goals to the good at half-time of a Premier League game at Anfield. They have won 117 of the previous 119 and drawn the other two.
I failed to report in the moments after Liverpool’s third goal that Gakpo was booked for pulling off his kit to reveal a Kaka-style “I belong to Jesus” vest top.
He belongs in the referee’s notenook. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA
On the subject of that game, Samuel Dodson emails: “Man City scoring in the first couple of minutes is the worst thing that could have happened to that match as a spectacle. However, judging by the empty seats in the city half of Wembley, it seems most of the City supporters have also realised that the Liverpool Spurs game is where it’s at today. Four goals already and if it continues like this it could end up being 7-2 by the end of play.” FA Cup semi-finals are the most rubbish of all fixtures for fans: tickets are really expensive, and either your team loses and you’ve had a miserable time, or your team wins and you need to shell out for even more for the final. It’s a lose/lose situation.
In other news, Nottingham Forest are losing 1-0 to Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-final, and Taha Hashim is watching that one:
Nottingham Forest v Manchester City: FA Cup semi-final – live
45+4 mins: Bergvall dummies a pass zinged into him, cleverly allowing the ball to run straight into touch. And that’s the end of half one.
45+3 mins: Spurs win a free-kick, from which Bergvall eventually chips a cross into touch.
45+1 mins: Into stoppage time. We’ll have about four minutes of it.
43 mins: Spurs go close to a second! Johnson runs down the right and crosses low; Tel looks set to tap in but Konate slides in to poke the ball away from him. He then clips the Spurs player’s ankles, but VAR deems the contact accidental and unavoidable.
41 mins: Liverpool think they’ve played the ball through for Mo Salah to run onto from the halfway line, but to their enormous frustration the referee blows his whistle because Brennan Johnson was offside a bit earlier.
39 mins: Mac Allister spins in the centre circle, and then tries to find Luis Diaz and fails. If he’d looked to his left, Gakpo was in an absolutely indecent amount of space, with absolutely nobody in front of him.
37 mins: Gary Neville describes Tottenham as “the absolute perfect opponent for Liverpool”. They have already got assists for two Liverpool goals. “Surely there can’t be any doubt that Spurs need a managerial change,” writes Gareth Beale. “Even if they win the Europa League, can you imagine how a team playing this way would fare in the Champions League?” There is no doubt that change is coming. It is clear in the way Ange Postecoglou talks, in the way the team plays, in everything about the way this group carries themselves.
Cody Gakpo cracks out the Kaka/Jesus tribute T-shirt. Photograph: Liverpool FC/Getty Images
Once it eventually stops rolling around, Liverpool go and score another. It’s not a good corner, but Bergvall at the near post doesn’t so much clear it as flick it on. Gakpo runs onto it, dances away from a couple of half-hearted challenges and shoots low on the turn, across Vicario and in at the far post!
Brilliant from Liverpool, shambolic from Spurs. Cody Gakpo scores the third. Photograph: Carl Recine/Getty Images
33 mins: Mac Allister struggles for a while to get the ball to stay still so he can take a corner. Elliot Wilson discerned “echoes of Jimmy Connnors at the US Open 1991 vs Haarhuis in the way Slot celebrated goal number two”. I’m going to have to take his word for it.
31 mins: In the end it’s played short to Alexander-Arnold, who blazes a shot over the bar.
30 mins: Liverpool win a free-kick, maybe 35 yards out. Mac Allister, Szoboszlai and Alexander-Arnold discuss their options.
29 mins: Solanke’s flicked header loops towards the bar, and might have been dropping under it, so Alisson turns it over. Solanke is again the target with the corner, but doesn’t win the header.
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