Manchester United completed the best start to a Premier League season by smashing five goals past a helpless Bolton at the Reebok Stadium without reply.
Wayne Rooney scored his second successive hat-trick to take his personal tally to eight in four games, part of an overall team tally of 18 - 13 of which have come in the last two matches.
Indeed, aside from Manchester City, Rooney has now scored more league goals on his own this season than any of the clubs attempting to keep pace with this unbelievable start in which one city appears to have annexed the entire championship between them.
Javier Hernandez marked his first start of the season with two goals, although on a night when everyone in red played their part, it was a dazzling run from teenager Phil Jones to create Rooney's second which sparkled the most.
Indeed, the only downside for Sir Alex Ferguson ahead of another Champions League quest getting under way against Benfica on Wednesday was the suspected broken foot midfielder Tom Cleverley sustained in an early collision with Kevin Davies, and an injury to Jonny Evans.
Although he endorsed David de Gea on Friday, it was claimed Ferguson was having extreme doubts over whether to drop the 20-year-old into the maelstrom of the Reebok Stadium, even now Owen Coyle has smoothed off quite a lot of that infamous abrasive edge.
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