Following Newcastle United’s eight-nil win over Sheffield United at the weekend, Daniel Wales delves into the largest victories seen in the Premier League since it began in 1992.
00:00 The Premier League never fails to shock and surprise us. It constantly throws up moments and results that we least expect.
00:07 At the weekend, Newcastle United defeated Sheffield United 8-0 at Bramall Lane.
00:12 The eight goals for the Magpies were netted by eight different goal scorers, with their opponents capitulating at every black and white attack on goal.
00:21 However, despite the astonishing nature of this result, Newcastle themselves managed to defeat Sheffield United's Steel City neighbours, Sheffield Wednesday, by the same scoreline at St James' Park behind me back in 1999.
00:35 Alan Shearer scored five that day on the occasion that Sotobobi Robson took charge of his boyhood club for the very first time, signalling the intent of direction which the club would take under his tenure as manager.
00:49 Newcastle would return to the Champions League in 2002.
00:53 With those results in mind, it seemed fitting to delve into the Premier League record book and discover what have been the biggest wins in the history of the competition.
01:05 The old First Division also saw huge victories and scorelines, but this will focus only on the period after 1992.
01:13 Having flicked through the pages and researched the subject in detail, it became apparent that there have been four other 8-0 scorelines and another that was an eight goal margin of victory.
01:25 They are Tottenham 9-1, Chelsea 8-0, Chelsea A Aston Villa 0, Southampton 8-0, and finally Manchester City 8-0.
01:36 Great if you're a fan of the team on the winning side, but agony and despair if you're supporting the losing team.
01:44 However, those results are only bettered by four 9-0 scorelines.
01:50 Manchester United achieved two of them.
01:52 They defeated Ipswich Town by that score in 1995 before repeating the feat against Southampton in 2021 when the Premier League was played behind closed doors due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
02:05 For Manchester United fans, they missed a brilliant display from their side, but for Southampton fans, they probably counted themselves quite lucky that they weren't in Old Trafford on that occasion.
02:17 Southampton were on the receiving end of another of the four when Leicester ran riot at St Mary's in 2019 with Jamie Vardy and Jose Perez both scoring hat-tricks.
02:29 Finally, just last year, Liverpool dished out a 9-0 hammering to Bournemouth at Anfield.
02:35 The then-Bournemouth manager, Scott Parker, would go on to lose his job, but they would stay up in the Premier League thanks to Gary O'Neill.
02:43 The question now is whether any team will manage double figures in a Premier League fixture.
02:48 England beat San Marino by that scoreline not so long ago, but in a Premier League match, with the eyes of the country and indeed the world glaring upon it, surely not.
