West Ham United celebrates its 125th anniversary on 29 June – and as part of our celebrations we're counting down to the date with the Club’s #50GreatestMatches – brought to you by Monster Energy!
Since the Hammers were formed as Thames Ironworks FC in 1895, we have played in excess of 5,500 matches – reaching five FA Cup finals - and one women's FA Cup final, lifting European silverware and competing across the globe and enjoying thousands of memorable moments.
With your help and recommendations, we've whittled down that list of 5,500 matches to a top 50, featuring landmark goals, trophies held aloft, heroic individual performances and remarkable collective efforts.
We continue the #50GreatestMatches countdown by looking back at the day the Hammers completes the greatest escape in their history...
The Championship Play-Off final may be globally renowned as the most lucrative domestic club game on the planet, worth tens of millions of pounds to the winners, and another long slog in the second tier for the losers.
After seeing the West Ham United playing squad decimated by their 2003 relegation, defeat and another demotion at Old Trafford on the final day of the 2006/07 season would have undoubtedly left the Hammers facing another major rebuilding exercise.
That Alan Curbishley's men could even go into 'Survival Sunday' clutching a lifeline was a mini-miracle in itself, following a woeful winter of discontent that had left bottom-placed West Ham ten points adrift of safety with just nine games remaining.
But an amazing run of six wins from their next eight matches lifted the Irons into 17th spot - three points ahead of wobbling Wigan Athletic - with just that daunting visit to newly-crowned champions Manchester United left to play.
Languishing in 18th spot, Wigan (Pts: 35. Goal Difference: -23) were, ironically, playing at 16th-placed Sheffield United (Pts: 38. GD: -22) realising they simply had to win their final game to survive, while the Hammers (Pts: 38. GD: -25) knew that they needed to take at least one point off the champions to guarantee their own survival.
And in a final twist in the tale, Neil Warnock's rapidly blunting Blades also knew they would depart the Premier League if they lost to Paul Jewell's Latics and the Hammers emerged from the Theatre of Dreams with a draw or a win.
It could not have been a more daunting proposition for West Ham United as they kicked-off in front of 75,927 fans packed to the rafters and baying for the Red Devils to avenge all those spanners that the Hammers had so aggravatingly hurled into their works during the Reds' championship chases of years gone by.
Back to May 2007 and East End nerves were jangling when Wayne Rooney sent an early screamer inches over, while Yossi Benayoun's double goal-line clearance from Alan Smith and Kieran Richardson also made for an uneasy opening.
Meanwhile, across the Pennines, Paul Scharner's goal for Wigan had plunged Sheffield United into the drop-zone before Jon Stead's equalising header put Wigan back in trouble.
Events at Bramall Lane, however, were quickly overtaken when Bobby Zamora nodded on Robert Green's huge drop-kick before playing a one-two with Carlos Tevez, who sneaked between his international team-mate Gabriel Heinze and Wes Brown to slot in his seventh goal in nine matches, on the stroke of half-time.
Every outfield player piled on top of the No32, while in the far corner of Old Trafford, the Claret and Blue Army erupted in delighted - and relieved - celebrations.
As well as creating high drama at the Theatre of Dreams, Tevez's strike had even greater ramifications over in Steel City, where Sheffield United's Phil Jagielka had handled, allowing ex-Hammer and former Blade David Unsworth to blast in from the penalty spot to send Wigan into an interval lead and leave Warnock's men in deep, deep trouble.
Following a blank opening to the second period at Old Trafford, Sir Alex Ferguson introduced Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Cristiano Ronaldo from the substitutes' bench to set up a frantic finale that saw John O'Shea's penalty appeal waved away before Ronaldo's downward header was saved by the outstanding Robert Green.
With seconds remaining, the acrobatic Hammers goalkeeper palmed over Scholes' late sizzler, before referee Martin Atkinson called time on both Sir Alex's frustrated champions and Curbishley's jubilant Hammers.
The heavy rain that poured down on Old Trafford could not dampen the celebrations that went on for some time on the pitch and in the stands, where the home fans were also able to smile after securing the title.
West Ham United - having assured their Premier League future with a defiant double over the Reds - had pulled off the greatest of great escapes.
