00:00And it brings the capacity of Upton Park back to nearly 30,000.
00:05And it's nearly a full house today to see a Manchester United team that have not lost since September the 29th.
00:11Lee Chapman had just signed for the Hammers then, and today the 34-year-old striker bids to extend an unusual record.
00:18He has scored against United for five different clubs in his 10-club career.
00:23Chapman's goal took West Ham through in the FA Cup last week, and the team shows two changes.
00:28David Burrows returns at left back after a cartilage operation, and Trevor Morley comes in up front alongside Chapman.
00:35The big news from the Champions camp is that Ryan Giggs picked up a hamstring strain in training yesterday, and is replaced by Brian McClare.
00:43It means there's a place on the bench for 18-year-old Ben Thornley, a member of last year's successful youth team, who has yet to make his senior debut.
00:51But Paul Ince is out there, expecting a mixed crowd reaction on his first return to Upton Park since he left four and a half years ago.
01:00And one of the people watching him today, the England coach Terry Venables, who announces his first squad on Monday.
01:06Well, it's not what you'd want to hear on apprenticeship ground, the reception that West Ham have given Paul Ince.
01:14And I don't think the club will be very pleased about it, either club.
01:19It's cast something of a shadow over the opening of this game.
01:23Whatever they may feel about his move, there's surely no need to behave like that towards him on his first return.
01:29Here's Cantona for United, and now Keane, with Mark Hughes down the middle, McClare joining him now.
01:46Oh, and Hughes is there! And it's a goal!
01:49Alvin Martin stretched and missed.
01:52And inside six minutes, Manchester United take the lead.
01:56The break is by Roy Keane.
02:01Alvin Martin here is stretching for the ball.
02:05Doesn't make it, and Mark Hughes prods it over the line to give the league champions and league leaders the edge early in the...
02:14Breaker.
02:16Flipped across, Chapman.
02:19Crawled round by Schmeichel.
02:23Difference of a save to the first one.
02:26And Schmeichel and Pallister came together.
02:34And on the break, Roy Keane with Kanchelskis ahead of him.
02:38Others coming to the right now.
02:39Two of them, in fact.
02:40That's onside.
02:42Kanchelskis.
02:48Keane.
02:49Off it came off.
02:50Burrows for a corner.
02:51Ballister, not a very good clearance, though.
02:58Breaker.
02:59Marsh.
03:01Morley up with the goalkeeper.
03:06Breaker.
03:08Curved in towards Morley.
03:10Bruce with the defender.
03:11And the referee decides that was illegal.
03:13Gives a free kick in Morley's favour against the Manchester United captain.
03:21They've got Alvin Martin, Lee Chapman and Morley waiting to come in from the far side.
03:29It's Burrows.
03:30Oh, I say!
03:32It's Schmeichel again.
03:33Here's Zach.
03:38Marsh.
03:38Marsh.
04:08Bishop, Allen, good movement again by West Ham, Allen's shot, I think he's also enjoying
04:18himself, Michael, when he's further over here, Chapman, yes, lead Chapman has equalised
04:28for West Ham, the top scorer, with 20 minutes to go,
04:38the hammers are back in it, and the long floated ball confused the defenders there, Dennis
04:45Irwin got caught out, and Chapman had time to blast it past Schmeichel and Bruce on the
04:50line, it's a long floated cross, the ball in the air a long time, Schmeichel changed his
04:56mind, Chapman got the better of Irwin here, and fires it in, so he does extend the record,
05:03Leeds Chapman, the sixth different club for whom he has scored against Manchester United
05:09in his long, wandering career, oh, and now, oh, good ball by Bishop, Hughes again, Cantona,
05:25Hughes, oh, hesitation there, and the goalkeeper had to head in, it would have been a back pass,
05:34well, it was a back pass, good thinking, well, the veteran striker, oh, and he's now in
05:45again on Schmeichel, and a chance here for Holmes perhaps, Chapman again, they're all over the
05:50place, Holmes, what an opportunity here, oh, it's there, Morley, Morley's got it, 2-1, West Ham
06:01turned the match round in a couple of minutes, well, again, Manchester United seem to lose
06:12the place here, it's Holmes who goes to the line, Schmeichel lost it, and Morley put it
06:18in, I thought at first the ball was the one back for Chapman, but Holmes thought otherwise,
06:23Palace is the only defender there, and Morley squeezes that between Schmeichel and the post,
06:30and suddenly, the team who've not been beaten for 32 games, were apparently coasting on a
06:371-0 lead, suddenly, they're 2-1 behind here, and we may be sitting on a big story at Upton
06:44Park.
06:48Breaker, and the familiar theme tune of West Ham, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, gets its
07:02first rendering of the afternoon.
07:08Here's McClare with three minutes to go, Keane, four waiting in the middle for United, Hughes
07:14arrives, this is Dublin, it all looks so straightforward, up to half-time and soon afterwards, but those
07:23two goals in a couple of minutes have turned the match on its head, here's Bruce, now a chance
07:32for United perhaps, and McCloscoe didn't make it, Hughes, oh, it's in, it's in, and somewhere
07:39in there is Paul Inch, I think, it's 2-2, and Inch seem to get in there in the crowd, and maybe
07:48they've saved themselves, two minutes to go, look how many West Ham players there are there,
07:55Hughes against Breaker, here comes Inch, yes it is, the former West Ham player, what a story,
08:01he's been booed most of the afternoon Paul Inch, and he popped up there in a crowded goal
08:07now, to score what may be the goal that protects the record.
08:19Only to Hughes, Dunney was meant to allow the ball to run to Cantona, this is Morley to Bishop,
08:29and Tim Breaker, a good run, Chapman was challenged by Parker, and the referee ends a memorable
08:47match, reckless stuff that Paul Inch, the former West Ham player, who is not happy with something
08:53at the final whistle, he's talking to referee Alan Wilkie, but what he will be, Morley I think
08:58was the player involved, with Inch, but what he will be pleased about when he gets back to the
09:05dressing room and replaces that scowl with a smile, is that he equalised for Manchester United,
09:10when the record seemed to have been ended by West Ham, Morley it was that put them 2-1 up,
09:16and within sight of victory, after they'd been one down early on, but Inch on his return to
09:23Upton Park, survives the crowd barracking, which wasn't pleasant, and saves Manchester United's
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