Arsenal's triumph in the Community Shield brings the third piece of silverware to North London under Mikel Arteta, but history shows this may not be a good omen for their Premier League title hopes.
While winning the traditional curtain-raiser for the new season against Pep Guardiola's Treble winning Manchester City team is nothing to sneer at, only one side to win Community Shield has gone on to lift the Premier League in the last 12 years.
Since 2011 only City themselves (in 2018) have followed up this pre-season trophy with a first placed finish at the end of the season.
For some, the competition offers a chance to fill more space in the trophy cabinet but for many others it has also become somewhat of an omen ahead of the Premier League campaign.
So Arteta will be pleased with his side's 4-1 win on penalties over his former boss Guardiola as he finally ends his poor run of form against City, but he may well be wary of what this means for the season to come.
The Arsenal boss had previously lost nine successive matches against the current Premier League title holders, with the most recent two losses in the league billed as Arsenal throwing away last season's title chances.
The Gunners lost 4-1 and 3-1 to City last season but drew 1-1 at Wembley after a 101st-minute Leandro Trossard strike cancelled out Cole Palmer's excellent second-half finish.
It was Fabio Vieira's coolly dispatched winning spot kick that gave Arteta only his third victory over Guardiola in 18 games, with all three coming at Wembley.
The Gunners' boss will be buoyed by the win and his team's overall performance as he started all three of his summer signings in the final.
Former Ajax defender Jurien Timber started at left-back, with £105m man Declan Rice playing on the left side of the midfield three and German striker Kai Havertz slotting not the false nine position.
'He was superb,' the Arsenal boss said on Havertz.
'The way he pressed and how intelligent he is to try and understand certain spaces and the timing of it, he was great and got in great positions to score.
'He was unlucky not to score but he was very physical when he needed to be, so I was very pleased with him.'
Since the establishment of the Premier League in 1992, only eight clubs that won the Shield proceeded to become league champions in the same season, the last being City in 2018/19.
The winners of the season-opener did go on to top the pile for four consecutive campaigns between 2007-08 and 2010-11, with Manchester United - once a staple of the Community Shield - clinching the trophy on three occasions.
But since United swept aside Chelsea at Wembley in 2010, only City have followed suit.
The two winners of the Community Shield before Arsenal, Liverpool and Leicester, have finished fifth and ninth in the league the following seasons with Leicester now plying their trade in the Championship.
So, pre-season can often be a red herring and not every team treats the Community Shield as seriously as the likes of Jose Mourinho, who famously counted it when he claimed he won three trophies in his first season at Old Trafford.
For Guardiola's City this was their fifth Community Shield in the last six, winning only two.
While his side soared to a brilliant treble last season, the Community Shield remains City's Achilles heel.
And no one seems more affected by the competition than Norwegian striker Erling Haaland, who for the second year in a row drew a blank in the final and was substituted in the 64th minute.
However if last season was anything to go by, Haaland romped to the Premier League Golden Boot scoring 36 goals in 35 games and breaking the league record.
A lot can be made of the Community Shield this year, but the real test begins this weekend as the Premier League roars back into live as City take on Burnley and Arsenal face Nottingham Forest.