That’s all for today’s judicial review, but Luke McLaughlin is following the big game between Spurs and Chelsea. Bye!

“Can’t beat a late winner,” says Simon McMahon. “A beautiful Sunday for all United fans everywhere.”

Post-match interviews

Jesse Lingard

“I’m over the moon. I got a brilliant reception when I came on. I had a good time at West Ham but I’ve gotta move on and do my best for Man United. I’ve been working hard, and to overcome last week wasn’t easy. To get some minutes today and score was brilliant. Mistakes happen in football. That’s one of the only mistakes I’ve probably made in my career but you need to bounce back and that’s what we did today.”

David de Gea

“I saw Rice with the ball and I was expecting him to take the penalty. Then Noble had the ball. All I was thinking was, ‘Save the ball’. It’s never easy to play here. It was a great goal from Jesse, he deserves it, and it’s a massive three points for us.”

The win takes Manchester United to second, behind Liverpool on goal difference. Brighton are third after beating Leicester 2-1.

de Gea’s save means that Jesse Lingard’s spectacular late goal was the winner. He gets a lot of stick, some of it justified, but that was a helluva show of character after his howler in the week.

Dear me, what a finish. It would have been a scandal had West Ham drawn the game - but they really should have done. Mark Noble came on to take the penalty, a huge gamble that failed when his tame effort was saved. Before that, Cristiano Ronaldo had two penalty appeals - one extremely good, one stonewall - ignored by both Martin Atkinson and VAR. It’s not good enough, but at least it didn’t affect the result.

The United players have swamped David de Gea. Even Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who is never this animated, charged onto the field like David Pleat at the final whistle to embrace him.

Noble sidefooted the penalty to his right, and de Gea - who had a nightmare in the Europea League final when it went to penalties - dived to his left to push it away. It was a poor penalty.

Mark Noble is coming on to take the penalty!

90+2 min Now West Ham appeal for a penalty when a cross hits the outstreched arm of Shaw. VAR are checking. I think this will be given and Manchester United will understandably be furious.

90+1 min The lunging Zouma fouls Ronaldo in the area, and again Martin Atkinson doesn’t give a penalty. VAR isn’t interested either, which is on the unfathomable side of ridiculous.

90 min Three minutes of added time.

Jesse Lingard, who starred on loan at West Ham last season, has shattered his London fan club with a spectacular goal! Matic fired a crisp pass into him on the left edge of the area, with Zouma for company. Lingard shifted the ball inside, away from Zouma, and flipped a rising drive into the far corner!

88 min A change apiece. West Ham bring on Manuel Lanzini for the goalscorer Said Benrahma; Manchester United replace Fred with Nemanja Matic.

87 min Lingard’s cross is booted clear by Coufal in the six-yard box. For the first time, it feels like the game is drifting towards a 1-1 draw.

86 min “You can’t question why VAR didn’t intervene, when you yourself said that one can argue Ronaldo initiated the contact. As soon as there is a reasonable debate about the decision, VAR should not overturn it.”

A lot of people argue Donald Trump should still be president, but I’d want VAR to intervene on that.

85 min This time Ronaldo does dive in the area after a slight tug from Cresswell. It was risky defending, but not enough for a penalty.

83 min After a good spell for West Ham, it’s Manchester United’s turn to domniate possession. They haven’t created much in this second half, though, and can still struggle against a deep-lying defence.

81 min An overhit backpass from Varane leads to a West Ham corner. Bowen takes, Maguire heads clear and Fornals whistles the rebound wide from the edge of the D.

80 min I get why Martin Atkinson ignored Ronaldo’s penalty appeal, especially in the current climate. But the more I see it, the more I think it was a pretty clear foul. Anyway.

78 min The replay shows it was a clear penalty, and I’ve no idea why VAR hasn’t intervened. Ronaldo chopped the ball outside Coufal, who dangled a leg and brought him down. You can argue that Ronaldo initiated the contact, but I really don’t think he did - Coufal stuck out his right leg, causing a clash of knees that led to Ronaldo falling.

77 min Ronaldo wants a penalty after what looked a foul by Coufal. Martin Atkinson says no.

74 min Rice nicks the ball off Ronaldo and sets off on another barnstorming run, 60 yards this time before the attack fizzles out. United break through Lingard and then Fernandes, who shoots tamely at Fabianski from 25 yards. He could have taken that closer to goal.

73 min Sancho is playing from the left, Lingard from the right. Shaw tries to find Lingard immediately with a low cross that is crucially cut out at the near post by Zouma.

72 min West Ham are having their best spell of the second half, though they lose a bit of momentum when Bowen stands on Varane’s foot to concede a free-kick. Meanwhile, Manchester United make two changes: Jesse Lingard and Jadon Sancho replace Mason Greenwood and Paul Pogba.

70 min “So, Ronaldo’s second goal vs Newcastle was a good example of this,” says Norrie Hernon (see 3.03pm). “He outpaced/beat his man and then finished, and this was widely described as a ‘typical’ Ronaldo goal, with much marvelling at how he’d retained his pace - when actually it was fairly atypical: he very rarely does or even tries to outrun a defender, and usually tries to receive the ball as close to goal as possible, so he can take a shot.”

Ah, fair enough. You’re right – he has become more of a one-touch finisher in the last few years. His evolution really is fascinating. You could write a book on it. Okay, a longread maybe. No? Fair enough. A column? A Thing We Learned?

69 min West Ham appeal unsuccessfully for a penalty when Soucek goes over in the area after a challenge from Wan-Bissaka. It looks like the referee has given the foul against Soucek, which is a maverick interpretation. I’m not sure it was a penalty - seen them given, blah blah blah - but I don’t think it was a foul by Soucek.

68 min Nikola Vlasic, who had a quiet full debut, is replaced by Andriy Yarmolenko. That should mean a move to the left for Fornals.

67 min Pogba is fuming after being penalised for a challenge on Zouma. He definitely tried to pull out of the tackle, and I don’t think he made contact, though Zouma will argue he went over in anticipation of a foul. Anyway.

66 min The game is meandering a bit. A draw would be a better result for West Ham, especially as they were playing in Zagreb on Thursday night. Manchester United had an extra 48 hours to recover.

GOAL! Brighton 2-1 Leicester (Vardy 62) It’s true.

64 min There’s a break in play while McTominay is checked by the physios. He seems fine.

62 min McTominay loses Rice cleverly on the edge of the area and is about to shoot when Zouma makes an important challenge. West Ham counter attack until Benrahma’s long-range shot hits McTominay in the face and flattens him.

60 min “At half time,” says Adam Roberts, “Michael Owen was talking about the art of playing the offside trap; how you can stay offside for long periods; how you judge what is interfering and what isn’t; how you step onside at the crucial moment and how difficult that makes it to mark you. He says he learnt it from Ruud van Nistelrooy!”

Exhibit A.

59 min Fernandes overhits a through pass to Greenwood, who had made a good run inside Cresswell. In Fernandes’s defence it was a difficult pass to pull off, with almost no margin for error.

58 min Fornals releases Bowen on the right with another good first-time pass. Bowen cuts into the area and has a shot blocked by Maguire.

57 min This is an important 35 minutes for Manchester United in particular. If they win, it will give some much needed credibility to their title challenge. If they don’t, they don’t.

53 min Yet another United corner is headed wide by Maguire, who was wrestling with Ogbonna. In fact Maguire thought it came off Ogbonna and should have been another corner. Martin Atkinson disagreed.

GOAL! Brighton 2-0 Leicester (Welbeck 50) As things stand, Brighton are second in the table!

52 min Fornals flicks a first-time pass out to Bowen on the right. He runs at Maguire and then slides a cross back towards Fornals, who flicks the ball behind his standing leg and wide of the near post. At the other end, Pogba shoots miles over the bar from the edge of the D.

51 min But Manchester United are having most of the ball, as they did in the first area. Shaw wins another corner and takes it himself. It’s hung up towards Maguire, who heads back across goal and well wide.

50 min West Ham still look pretty dangerous on the counter-attack. They’re very good at creating space with just two or three precise passes in a tight area.

48 min West Ham win their first corner of the game. Bowen’s teasing inswinger is slabheaded away by Maguire. A few seconds later. Bowen has a long-range shot comfortably saved by de Gea.

47 min: Fabianski denies Ronaldo again! That’s another superb save. A dreadful square pass from Fornals went straight to Fernandes, 25 yards from goal. He opened his body to steer a first-time pass into the path of Ronaldo, who cracked a low that was blocked by the outrushing Fabianski.

46 min Peep peep! West Ham begin the second half. No changes on either side.

“I suppose it is slightly fitting that, on the day of Greaves’ passing, we see two of his strengths embodied by Ronaldo and that goal: always, always hit the target, and exceptionally timed runs,” says Norrie Hernon. “RIP, Greavsie. It is then a pity that most of the media/commentators still talk about Ronaldo as if he’s still essentially a speedy winger when it is his transformation/ability to adapt that has been, if anything, much more impressive.”

Do they really? I try to avoid as much football coverage as possible but the bits I have been exposed to in recent weeks have generally included a discussion of his evolution from fantasy footballer to Fantasy Footballer.

“Am I the only one who notices how jammy Ronaldo’s goals always are?” writes Zafar Sobhan. “So far this season: tap in goalie should have held, poor finish through keeper’s legs, poor finish through keeper’s legs, and arguably offside and he fluffs initial chance (terrible defending to boot, either mark the man or keep him offside; don’t play him onside and let him get goal- and ball-side of you).”

He’s scored nearly 700 goals.

Half-time reading

45+2 min ... until Vlasic’s cross is cleared by Wan-Bissaka.

45+1 min Shaw’s deep, outswinging corner is deliberately shouldered towards goal by Ronaldo, 15 yards out. It’s blocked by a West Ham defender but United keep the ball and Fernandes’s cross is palmed over his own bar by Fabianski. The resulting corner is headed away very well by Ogbonna and West Ham break...

45 min Pogba’s long-range shot deflects behind for another corner. Two minutes of added time.

42 min: Chance for Vlasic! Moments later, at the other end, Vlasic misses a decent chance. He nipped in front of Varane at the near post to meet Cresswell’s precise cross, but his first-time flick went over the bar.

42 min: Excellent save from Fabianski! Greenwood slides a simple pass down the inside-right channel to Ronaldo, who batters a first-time shot across goal from 15 yards. Fabianski gets down really smartly to his right to save.

GOAL! Brighton 1-0 Leicester (Maupay 35 pen)

You can get goal updates from the other Premier League game here.

39 min Manchester United should save us all a bit of time and start every away game 1-0 down. They are a different team now, playing with greater speed and intensity.

37 min That’s four goals in three games for Cristiano Ronaldo. In his first spell at United it took him 33 games to score four goals. He was a very different footballer then. He was barely the same person.

Fernandes, on the left wing, curled an inswinging cross towards Ronaldo, lurking near the penalty spot. He beat Cresswell to the ball and flicked a deft volley towards goal with the outside of his right foot. It was straight at Fabianski, who saved but couldn’t hold, and Ronaldo gobbled up the rebound. There was a VAR check for offside but he was fine.

34 min Ronaldo’s touch lets him down when he’s put through by McTominay, and then Wan-Bissaka’s shot is pushed round the near posat by the diving Fabianski. Ronaldo’s was the better chance - he was put through in the inside-left channel but McTominay, but his touch was heavy and that allowed Coufal to slide in.

32 min Shaw heads a cross down towards Ronaldo, who can’t adjust his feet quickly enough and shins well wide.

Fornals, Coufal and Bowen combined neatly to find Benrahma in space, 25 yards from goal. He opened his body to curl a shot that took a huge deflection off Raphael Varane and wrongfooted David de Gea. I think Benrahma’s shot was off target, in which case it’ll go down as an own goal.

29 min “If it’s not too indulgent to link my own review,” writes Gary Naylor, “the ‘Greavsie’ film is a wonderful tribute to the footballer and the man.”

BT Sport are showing it tonight, 10pm I think.

28 min Moments later, Shaw’s daisycutter from 20 yards is well saved to his right by Fabianski.

27 min: What a save from Fabianski! Shaw’s corner from the right brushes somebody’s head at the near post and reaches Fernandes at the far. He whistles a left-footed volley back across goal that is fingertipped onto the post by Fabianski, a spectacular reaction save. There was a player on the line, Cresswell I think, but I reckon he would have been beaten for pace by Fernandes’s shot. It was a sensational stop from Fabianski.

27 min Fernandes’s dangerous cross from the right is headed behind by Ogbonna, diving towards his own goal at the near post. Ronaldo was lurking behind him; of course he was.

26 min “You have no idea how frustrating it is waiting for you to describe what is happening... sitting in Africa with only your typing skills to give us an inkling...” writes Jane in Zimbabwe. “Are you typing with one finger, or is it just not worth writing anything? Please give us a clue...”

I’m only as good as the action in front of me. But if you want I can start making it up.

24 min Greenwood and Pogba combine to find Ronaldo on the left edge of the area. He does a series of stepovers in front of Coufal, who completely ignores them, so Ronaldo decides to have a shot instead. It’s well struck but straight at Fabianski.

22 min: de Gea saves from Bowen! This is an excellent spell for West Ham. Coufal’s cross from the right is headed up in the air by Varane. Bowen muscles McTominay away from the loose ball and sidefoots a relatively tame shot that is kicked away by de Gea. The ball rebounds to Soucek, who smashes it over the bar from 20 yards. It was a decent effort from Soucek, sweetly struck and not too far over the top.

20 min No touches of note for Cristiano Ronaldo yet. Manchester United’s attacking play has been a bit scruffy.

19 min In fact it was Varane, not Wan-Bissaka, who blocked Bowen’s shot. And actually, replays suggest it was going wide anyway. As you were.

18 min Soucek drags a shot well wide from 20 yards.

17 min: Great block from Wan-Bissaka! West Ham almost take the lead after a mistake from Maguire. He tried to shield the ball from Bowen on the wing and was robbed on his blind side by Benrahma. He moved into the area from the right and cut the ball to Bowen, whose shot from 10 yards was blocked the stretching Wan-Bissaka.

15 min Shaw’s inswinging corner is headed away by Zouma.

14 min Possessionwatch: West Ham 25-75 Manchester Utd.

13 min There’s plenty of space for Shaw on the left, and United have found him a few times with crossfield passes. Nothing has come of it yet, but I’ve got to write about something.

11 min Pogba gets away with a poor challenge on Coufal in the centre circle. West Ham had the ball so play continued, but I’m surprised Martin Atkinson didn’t go back to book Pogba.

10 min Pogba is okay. The game hasn’t really settled down yet, though Manchester United are having more of the ball.

8 min “I once met Jimmy Greaves at a book signing in Canary Wharf, London,” says Martin Scott. “I was the only person there that lunch time and he was just signing books on his own. As a result I got to spend some 30 minutes with the great man discussing his career and football in general. To this day one of the football highlights of my life. I was struck by his humour, his quiet but still mischievous energy at that point in his life, and his humility. And, of course, his staggering career highlights. (One example from the Guardian’s coverage: His record of 366 goals in the top five European leagues lasted until 2017 when it was surpassed by a player called Cristiano Ronaldo.) RIP Jimmy, truly one of the greatest strikers of all time, and a lovely, lovely man.”

‘Mischievous energy’ is a really nice description. I always thought there was just a touch of sadness in his eyes, too, and the juxtaposition of that with his mischievous energy was fascinating.

6 min Pogba beats the ground in pain after Zouma stands on his left foot after being beaten to a loose ball. It was only the foot, not the ankle, so there’s no talk of a red card. Pogba is limping heavily towards the touchline for more treatment.

4 min Shaw’s outswinging corner is headed wide by McTominay, under a fair bit of pressure at the near post. Not much of a chance.

2 min “Isn’t the late great Jimmy Greaves the best player to be shared by my Chelsea and your Spurs?” says George Meikle. “Asking for a friend.”

Well, yes. Clive Wilson was an underrated left-back but I doubt even he would claim he was better than Greavsie.

1 min Peep peep! Manchester United kick off from right to left. West Ham have started with Fornals on the right, Vlasic on the left and Benrahma behind Bowen.

The players gather round the centre circle for a minute’s applause in tribute to Jimmy Greaves. It still doesn’t seem real that he’s gone; I doubt it ever will.

“What a sad day for football,” says Duncan Edwards. “Jimmy Greaves was like a panther amongst penguins. An artist and a killer of a player. I haven’t read much reference to his bout with hepatitis which kept him out of football for months pre-1966, or the earlier death of his four-month-old son.”

A couple of his books - This One’s on Me and the autobiography in 2005ish - are extraordinary.

“Best rant ever,” says Liz in Canada. “Someday, may we again live in times where the only thing raising our hackles is irresponsible meteorologists. Rest in peace, Greavsie.”

“Will either of today’s Uniteds be capable of proving the old adage of no player being bigger than the club?” muses Steve Hewlett. “The 1900 version seeking to keep up their unbeaten start to the season without their main source of goals in Michail Antonio; or the 1902 version, eager enablers of the twilight tour of the Cristiano Ronaldo show and his mammoth social media following?”

I knew I should have brought my quill today.

From the archive

This is really nice - a piece on Jimmy Greaves’ testimonial in 1972.

Jadon Sancho is on the bench today. Have Manchester United bought a dud? No, behave yourself.

“I was fortunate enough to watch United against Tottenham several times when Greaves and my hero, Denis Law , were both on the field,” writes David Gaskell. “The excitement was electric. However, I seem to recall that Greavesie, like Bobby Charlton was a very fair player and was cautioned. Denis, on the other hand, presumably because of defective eyesight, could often catch the opposition with a misplaced tackle. Can anyone confirm that Jimmy was virtually spotless?”

I’m pretty sure he was sent off once in a European game, though would have to check. Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law on the same pitch, eh - I’m surprised the stadium wasn’t evacuated due to dangerous levels of charisma.

It’s a reflection of West Ham’s confidence - and attacking options - that David Moyes has stuck with a back four. He often plays three centre-backs against the bigger teams but clearly fancies his chances today, even without Michail Antonio.

The purest finisher England has ever produced, Greaves functioned with deadly economy... It was his habit to score his goals in a way that almost took the drama out of the event.

Kurt Zouma and Nikola Vlasic make their full Premier League debuts for West Ham. Vlasic or Jarrod Bowen will play up front instead of the suspended Michail Antonio, a like-for-like replacement either way.

The increasingly influential Scott McTominay returns from injury for Manchester United, which means a slight reshuffle and the omission of Jadon Sancho.

West Ham (4-2-3-1, positions of the front four tbc) Fabianski; Coufal, Zouma, Ogbonna, Cresswell; Soucek, Rice; Vlasic, Fornals, Benrahma; Bowen.
Substitutes: Areola, Dawson, Diop, Fredericks, Masuaku, Lanzini, Noble, Kral, Yarmolenko.

Manchester United (4-2-3-1) de Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Varane, Maguire, Shaw; McTominay, Fred; Greenwood, Fernandes, Pogba; Ronaldo.
Substitutes: Heaton, Bailly, Dalot, Lingard, Mata, Matic, van de Beek, Martial, Sancho.

Referee Martin Atkinson.