On This Day: The Dell 2000

On Saturday 22 April 2000, United swept aside Southampton at The Dell to claim the club's sixth league crown in eight years - and 13th title in total.

Bouncing back from a midweek Champions League defeat to Real Madrid, the Reds produced a display full of the quick passing and incisive movement that yielded a Treble in the previous year. The champions raced into a three-goal lead by the half-hour mark and never looked in danger from that point on.

A trademark David Beckham free-kick set Sir Alex Ferguson's men on course for victory and when Francis Benali deflected the ball into his own net following a great surge down the left from Phil Neville, United were in firm control. Shortly afterwards, Roy Keane found Beckham in space on the right and he played a rapier-like ball to Solskjaer. The Norwegian's majestic control and volley sent the travelling support into raptures and even though the Saints eventually responded with a splendid solo effort from Marian Pahars, the result was by then academic.

United were Premier League champions again, this time with four games to spare.

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