If Declan Rice’s free-kicks were the two most eye-catching moments of Arsenal’s Champions League victory over Real Madrid, then Anne Hathaway’s subsequent show of support might have been a close third. The Hollywood actress celebrated Arsenal’s first-leg victory with an unexpected rendition of The Angel, the club’s anthem.
Hathaway’s performance, shared on her social media, prompted almost as many headlines as Rice’s match-winning brace. A few weeks earlier, her post about Bukayo Saka’s return from injury generated two million likes on Instagram, which was twice as many as Saka and Arsenal’s own posts combined.