Paul Scholes pulled one back, but an ageing Trevor Sinclair put the game to bed on 73 minutes before Shaun Wright-Phillips added a fourth in injury time.
United finished the season a distant third behind Chelsea and the unbeaten Arsenal, but managed to overcome the footballing might of Millwall in the FA Cup final.
Kevin Keegan's City didn't win any of their next seven games and finished 16th.
2. Celtic 5-1 Rangers
Parkhead, Saturday 21 November 1998
After a dour goalless draw at Ibrox in the first Old Firm game of the season hopes were not high for the return leg at Parkhead. As is often the case in derby routs the opening goal came early, with Lubo Moravcik scoring on 11 minutes.
The Slovak doubled the lead before Henrik Larsson added two more and Mark Burchill compounded Rangers' misery in the final minute, securing Celtic's biggest win over their rivals for 30 years.
Giovanni van Bronkhorst scored Rangers' consolation at 3-0.
Rangers got their revenge in the Scottish cup final, winning 1-0 at Hampden. Celtic did not win another Old Firm game until August 2000.
3. Internazionale 0–6 AC Milan
San Siro, Friday 11 May 2001
Home advantage may be negligible when two teams share a ground, but the results of the derby della Madonnina have broadly favoured the home team.
Not so in this humiliating late-season encounter which saw two goals each for Gianni Comandini and Andriy Shevchenko and one from Federico Giunti in the biggest win in this derby's history.
The sixth was scored by Brazilian winger Serginho, just reward for contributing three assists and pulling the strings all afternoon.
To rub salt in the wound of the Nerazzuri, Giunti's was his only ever goal for Milan, and Comandini never scored for the club domestically again. Both sides finished outside the top four, with Inter two points ahead of their rivals in the final standings.
4. West Bromwich Albion 3-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
The Hawthorns, Sunday 22 October 2006
It may not have the glamour of el clásico, the prestige of Arsenal v Spurs or even the homely charm of Plymouth v Exeter, but Albion and Wolves do a fine line in unfettered hatred.
The Black Country derby is fiercely contested and usually very tight, West Brom have 52 wins in their history, to Wolves' 51.
This was Albion's biggest win in the match for 25 years and was sealed by a John Hartson penalty five minutes from time.
Jonathan Greening gave West Brom an early lead, with Diomansy Kamara adding a second. It was the first of four wins for West Brom over their rivals in a miserable season for Wolves.
Albion repeated the 3-0 trick at Molineux in the FA Cup, lost there in the league, but won both legs of a play-off semi final before losing out to Derby in the final.
5. Newcastle United 5–1 Sunderland
St James's Park, Sunday 31 October 2010
Chris Hughton made a mockery of suggestions he would be sacked by dismantling a Sunderland side that had been parsimonious at the back all season.
A Kevin Nolan hat-trick and two from Shola Ameobi secured the biggest win in a Tyne-Wear derby since 1956, with Darren Bent's late goal barely qualifying as consolatory in the circumstances.
This appears to be a blip for the Mackems, who responded with a win at home to Stoke, a creditable draw away at Tottenham and an unforgettable 3-0 win at Stamford Bridge.
Newcastle beat Arsenal away in the following game, but have been inconsistent since with home draws against Fulham and Chelsea and a 5-1 defeat at Bolton.
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