Manchester United 3-3 Chelsea – Premier League, September 23, 2000:
This was new Blues boss Claudio Ranieri’s first-ever game in charge of the club following the sacking of Gianluca Vialli at the start of that month, and what a venue to begin your managerial career in England at for the popular Italian.
However, despite the west Londoners languishing down in an unfamiliar 17th place in the Premier League at the time, it was the visitors who actually took an early lead through Netherlands international Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s piledriver, only for the champions to then respond in kind with quick-fire strikes themselves before half-time from Paul Scholes, Teddy Sheringham and David Beckham.
And yet Chelsea just would not roll over and die, scoring twice either side of the break through Norway forward Tore Andre Flo to earn a share of the spoils in this six-goal thriller at the Theatre of Dreams.