The scenes outside the Emirates Stadium on Sunday

HUNDREDS of thousands of football fans are set to descend on north London’s pubs on Saturday night for what could be an evening of record takings for publicans.

But after nearly a fortnight of the wild street celebrations which have marked Arsenal’s Premier League title win, questions are being asked about who should pay for the clean-up operations.

The Gunners face Paris St Germain in the Champions League this weekend, but as the match is being played in Budapest and not being shown on free-to-air channels, screenings are expected to be rammed.

Although they are the underdogs, London already knows what will happen if Arsenal were to win – after two giant flare-lit street parties last Tuesday and Sunday which ran into the early hours.

Even if the team loses to their French rivals, Arsenal will parade their domestic title trophy through the streets of Islington on an open top bus on ­Sunday – drawing potentially one ­million people to the streets.

It means the party is going on and on and on for the fans, but some residents are dreading the sight of red and white shirts this weekend due to the noise and mess.

Glass, plastic bags, bottles, beer cans and half-eaten food were left on pavements after the large outdoor and unofficial celebrations which have already take place.

On Bank Holiday Monday, people said they awoke to find the streets giving out a pungent aroma of dried urine.

Both the club and local authorities are facing calls to be ready for this weekend as it spreads out across north London – with a plea for festival-style portable toilets to be installed.

Pubs, which have been hit by Covid and a rise in energy costs, cannot be blamed for enjoying the football bonanza – even before the World Cup kicks off.

Tom Maloney, the owner of the Oxford Arms in Camden Town, said he had ordered extra barrels for the “special occasion”, adding: “We have good crowd control so that most importantly everyone can enjoy themselves.”

Three generations of his family will actually be in the stadium in Budapest, Hungary, for the final. “I’m a big Gooner. I was at the Emirates on Sunday, singing songs and chanting, it was amazing and it was nice to see everyone together, just having a good time enjoying themselves,” he said.

“That’s what the club is all about. It was euphoric.”

Many pubs across Camden said they were running reservation-only policies that are already sold out from lunchtime onwards on Saturday.

Those running walk-in policies are expecting queues and some may be disappointed.

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Pat Logue, landlord at the Sheephaven Bay also in Camden Town, said: “We’ve taken about 50-60 booking just for the regulars, but we could have done 1,000. It’s going to be massive, for sure. We’re expecting a massive turnout on Saturday. Hopefully the result will go their way, and keeps them all happy – that’s the most important thing.”

Jimmy McGrath, who runs the King William IV in Hampstead and The Steeles in Belsize Park and The Old Eagle in Camden Town, joked: “We’re showing the game at all of the pubs. We get a lot of Gooners coming in. We’re not doing paid entry. Just turn up with plenty of money.”

At the Escape Bar in Mornington Crescent, Ravi Senathirajah, who has owned the bar for 20 years, said: “It’ll be a good crowd of regulars that we expect to see, 90 per cent of them are Arsenal fans so it will be a busy and amazing day.”

In the pubs closer to the Emirates Stadium, tickets to the screenings have already sold out.

Martin Whelan, at the Tollington Arms, said the bar had been packed to see Sunday’s trophy lift.

“There must have been 3,000 people trying to get into the pub from the street – we had to send them all to the other pubs in the area,” he said.

“We’ve been stocking up on barrels and barrels of beer every few days to deal with demand – but you’ll never see us run out of beer.”

As mass crowds assembled in the streets around the ground on Sunday, however, police sent in a heavier presence.

Officers declared a controlled drinking zone across the borough as a temporary order to halt street consumption. Crates of drinks were confiscated.

Percy Grainger, a resident of Liverpool Road, said: “We need more public bins for future parties, public toilets and fines for people who are clearly vandalising the area.”

He added that while he did not want to “rain on Arsenal’s Parade”, in the past few days he said he had witnessed an “orgy of alcoholism and mindless vandalism”, adding: “The streets neighbouring the Emirates are still an absolute pigsty two days on, despite the stadium concourse being spotless.

“These poor people that have to clean these streets now because people just wanted to get drunk.”

Islington’s community safety chief, Councillor Heather Staff, said: “The amount of littering was staggering. If people are coming from outside Islington, it’s about treating this area with respect.

“The majority of Arsenal fans do care about this area, but it’s one or two who are letting everyone down

“I have had some women tell me they didn’t feel particularly safe because guys were just whipping it out in front of them. Let’s just not be feral.”

An Islington Council spokesperson said: “A huge thank you to our cleaning crews who worked hard over the past weekend to carry out a prompt clean-up and targeted our resources to those areas that most needed them.

“Additional resources are being brought in as required and we are working closely with Arsenal FC to ensure Islington Council is not adversely affected financially.

There is an Islington Boroughwide PSPO (Controlled Drinking Zone) in place to prevent anyone drinking in the street who may be causing nuisance or disorder.”