Their remarkable achievement of going an entire Premiership season unbeaten has alerted fans right across the world.

It seems almost impossible that Arsene Wenger's men could play 38 competitive Premiership games and not lose a single one.

But the way they finished off their season with a 2-1 victory over Leicester on Saturday shows exactly why they are such great champions.

With the title already in the bag and minds inevitably turning towards the Euro 2004 finals, the Gunners could have been forgiven for strolling through their final few fixtures.

But in fact they stayed committed and professional - even when Paul Dickov put Leicester ahead at Highbury on Saturday.

Goals from captain Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry secured a 2-1 victory and a piece of immortality for the entire team. Because, as surely everyone now knows, Arsenal are the first side since Preston in 1889 to win the title without losing a game.

It's only fitting that TheFA.com should join in the tributes to Arsene Wenger's men.

In the interests of fairness we could point out that Shrewsbury also had a magnificent weekend, returning to the Football League after a penalty shoot-out victory over Aldershot.

Crystal Palace's dramatic 3-2 play-off semi-final win over Sunderland was also a bit special for Iain Dowie, and Mansfield must be chuffed with their 2-0 away win at Northampton in the Third Division semi-finals.

But who can really say that anything can compare to Arsenal's astonishing achievements today?

The scenes in north London on Sunday when the Gunners paraded the Premiership trophy around Islington showed what it all meant to fans at Highbury.

But Arsenal's legacy to the game at large is much more significant than that.

The best fact of all is that Arsene Wenger's men created their piece of history, and won the title, playing some of the most attractive football ever seen in the Premiership.

So when schoolboys and schoolgirls across the country rush out for a lunchtime kickabout today, there will be no long balls, no kick and rush. Every single one of them will want to play like Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole.

And that could prove to be Arsenal's biggest victory of all.