FA Premiership

Man Utd

6-1

Arsenal

 

Yorke 3, 18, 22
Keane 26
Solskjaer 38
Sheringham 90

Henry 16

  
 

Old Trafford

 

 

25 February 2001

This game was not only the most comprehensive result in the history of the Premiership between these two great rivals, it was arguably also Arsène Wenger's most humiliating moment in English football.

Robert Pires claims it is the only occasion on which he has seen the ice-cool Frenchman lose his temper at half-time, by which point the visitors found themselves trailing 5-1. Dwight Yorke scored a 19-minute hat-trick that had been completed after only 22 minutes of the first period.

It's amazing to think that at one point the game had been tied-up at one apiece when Henry finished a brilliant Arsenal move.

Further goals were added by Keane, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and, in the final minute to add further salt to the Highbury wounds, Sheringham again. It's fair to say this was United's day and it was the Old Trafford club that went on to win the league.

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