Nottingham Forest dished out a 7-0 thrashing of Brighton, just a week after Nuno Espirito Santo’s team were hammered 5-0 at Bournemouth and only a couple of weeks since Brighton won 3-1 at Manchester United. The Premier League is fun, isn’t it? Forest’s humongous victory was their biggest in any division since 1991, just before football began to exist , but where does it rank in the all-time (since 1992) Premier League genre of filthiest shellackings? Advertisement Or, in technical parlance, what are the largest margins of victory in Premier League history? Let The Athletic be your guide..
. Manchester United 9-0 Ipswich Town, March 1995 The OG beating (no own goals were scored). The striker formerly known as Andy Cole (it’s Andrew now, please) netted five as Sir Alex Ferguson’s first great Manchester United team set an early Premier League record that has not been beaten almost 30 years on.
Rampant United took advantage of the fact that Ipswich’s Canadian goalkeeper Craig Forrest wore trousers, which weighed him down. Oh, and referee Graham Poll seemingly wanted to be part of history, as he let Paul Ince take a quick free kick to make it 8-0 when Forrest was miles out of his goal. Roy Keane played at right-back, United scored four goals in 13 minutes in a second-half blitz and, although hapless Ipswich were soon relegated in last place, United didn’t win the league that season, losing out to Blackburn Rovers by a point.
Goals: Keane (15th minute), Cole (19, 37, .
