Top 5 Manchester United vs Arsenal Premier League matches at Old Trafford

2. Manchester United 8-2 Arsenal – August 28, 2011

Arsenal suffered their heaviest league loss in 84 years as Wenger and Ferguson met for the 50th time in all competitions.

The Gunners’ search for their first win of the 2011/12 campaign looked a lost cause by half-time, United 4-1 up.

No parallels could be drawn to Arsenal’s title winning squads, packed with leaders such as Tony Adams, Ray Parlour and Kolo Toure, who would never have allowed an 8-2 defeat to Ferguson’s United on their watch.

Wenger described the game as “humiliating”, but the victory was the first of three occasions where Ferguson would get one over his opposite number in the Scot’s final two seasons as United boss.