Wayne Rooney delivered a stunning reminder of the days when Manchester United could be relied upon to decorate the Premier League with the extravagance of their football.
Under the floodlights at Upton Park, Rooney scored a goal of stunning invention from some 57 yards.
It was greeted with a gleeful leap from the bench by United manager David Moyes — and a massive grin from the watching David Beckham, who had thrust himself into the conscience of the nation with a goal of his own for United from the halfway line against Wimbledon in the fa\raway summer of 1996.
Rooney followed up his eighth-minute wonder goal, from barely five yards inside West Ham’s half, with a second that showed the speed of his reflexes as he reacted to a clearance from Mark Noble 12 minutes before half-time.
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