An absolutely riotous day of Premier League thrills and spills saw both Manchester United and Liverpool fall to humiliating and incredibly heavy defeats, with United going down 6-1 against Tottenham and Liverpool, even more improbably, getting thumped 7-2 by Aston Villa.

That's right: Two clubs with a whopping 39 English top-flight titles between them conspired to concede a total of 13 goals between them! What a day. Where to begin?

How about kickoff at OId Trafford, where things actually got off to a decent start for United when they won their now customary penalty with just 30 seconds played.

Bruno Fernandes duly converted in similarly routine fashion and all seemed well, However, things began to turn sour for the hosts just minutes later, signalling the start of a remarkable few hours. This is the story of a magnificent, mind-boggling day.

Having dusted themselves off, Jose Mourinho's Tottenham responded with a bewildering barrage of six unanswered goals, starting when Tanguy Ndombele cancelled out Fernandes' spot kick in the fourth minute and quickly followed by Son Heung-min putting the visitors ahead in the seventh.

United then saw Anthony Martial sent off just ahead of the half-hour mark for a fairly tame slap of Erik Lamela, who somehow managed to stay on the field despite clearly antagonising the French striker with a weak tap moments beforehand.

Much to Mourinho's muted delight, Spurs continued to ransack United's rickety defence and rattle goal after goal past David de Gea.

United continued to capitulate after the restart, conceding two more goals in the second half to let six slip for only the third time in Premier League history -- all three of their stuffings coming in the dreaded month of October.

Despondent on the touchline, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came in for heavy criticism as United suffered back-to-back defeats in their first two home games of the season for the first time since 1986-87.

Not that it stopped Spurs' official channels from celebrating a truly momentous victory amid a hectic run of fixtures for the club -- five games in 11 days to be precise.

Indeed, it was another particularly bad day at the office for goalkeeper De Gea too, with history hardly smiling on him favourably either.

Predictably, Mauricio Pochettino's name was being bandied around on social media, with the former Spurs man being touted for United -- not as a possible replacement for Solskjaer but as a potential defensive upgrade on Harry Maguire et al.

Alternative suggestions for the United managerial hot seat were also made (with tongue pressed firmly in cheek). After it was announced that United had tentatively agreed a deal to sign Edinson Cavani, many joked that the ex-PSG striker may now be contemplating a hasty U-turn after witnessing them in action.

United transfer target Jadon Sancho came in for similar treatment, with some fans querying whether making an expedited offer for the Dortmund winger during the match might not be a bad idea.

Though of course other, more realistic viewers also questioned why Sancho would want to move to United at all on current evidence.

But then a weird day got even weirder...

With their fans no doubt reveling in United's despair, Liverpool ran out against a club that almost got relegated just weeks ago in search of a fourth straight win to begin their title defence... only to trump their great rivals with a truly mystifying display.

As if deliberately trying to one-up United in the upset stakes, Jurgen Klopp's side were uncharacteristically flimsy, which resulted in Liverpool conceding seven for the first time since 1963. Imagine how the internet might have reacted back then!

Villa were 4-1 up at the break with Ollie Watkins having scored a lightning fast hat trick, the first three goals of his Premier League career having signed from Brentford just a month ago.

In doing so, Watkins became the first player to score a treble against the Reds since Dimitar Berbatov for Man United back in September 2010.

Ross Barkley then added a fifth by scoring on his Villa debut. Yep, that's right, the same Ross Barkley who previously spent seven years at (current league leaders) Everton but had never managed to score against their Merseyside rivals.

Mohamed Salah pulled another back for Liverpool with his second on the hour mark, only for Jack Grealish to weigh in with a brace for Villa, taking the scoreline to a frankly ludicrous 7-2.

As lamented by the club's official Twitter account, it is just a shame there were no Villa fans inside the stadium to witness the "absolute scenes."

And so it finished, with a dejected Liverpool having broken all sorts of thoroughly unwanted records while Villa celebrated a momentous performance.

This was the first time Liverpool conceded six goals or more in a game since the infamous 6-1 defeat against Stoke City in 2015, which was departing captain Steven Gerrard's horrendous farewell game.

No wonder Klopp looked completely and utterly bewildered in the away dugout.

It is a shame it had to end, but Sunday's action concluded with both Liverpool and Manchester United having lost a game by more than three goals in the same Premier League matchweek since January 2012, when Liverpool lost 3-0 against Man City while United went down 3-0 to Newcastle the following day.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/story/4200263/tottenham-6-1-man-united-how-the-internet-reacted-to-uniteds-embarrassing-defeat

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EPL is the real league, the rest na shit,,,no club fit rule for England for 3yrs self, but other league na one or 2 club dey always top

The Sunday tonic wey dem give Man U and Liverpool bitter pass alomo bitters...

Abeg, E don do na

6-1 +7-2=

I don't even understand myself since yesterday

I already said it yesterday.

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Guys mark my words...

Iiverpool is losing this match....

If Liverpool wins this match, mark my username...

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Pls I need a witness for this..... Liverpool is losing this match...

Aston villa fcvked up
8-2
Would have been a better scoreline

yesterday still one of the best day for me since the beginning of this yr

Fuc,k Liverpool... Lost 80k placed on them to win.


Let them start walking alone cos no one is gonna support them again.

Idiots.. They sold out to Aston Villa.

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You never see anything season just started

These men were fuckedd both sides.

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A truly embarrassing day for us Liverpool fans. Villa's coach definitely did his homework and the result did not in any way flatter his team.

On to the next...

balderdash

whatever red you are it must have been a bloody day

lol.

Thought Manchester city is the only club with defense probz
Thank God we plenty

Liverpool didn't walk alone , they did with United

I have been calling my Man Utd and Liverpool friends, they aren't picking the call.



I just want to wish them HAPPY TEACHERS DAY

Allison is out for 6 weeks and Adrian is going to man the posts.


Time to find a new hobby.

E shock me...thoo I be Liverpool fan but the way they played yesterday didn't make sense at all.

This is football...anything can happen...we move unto the next level

Na so life be