Liverpool 3-3 West Ham (3-1 on pens): The atmosphere builds in the Millennium Stadium ahead of the 125th FA Cup final

Liverpool's Peter Crouch makes an audacious attempt on goal after six minutes with an overhead kick from outside the area

Jamie Carragher runs onto a cross from West Ham's Lionel Scaloni to score an own goal and give the Hammers the lead

Dean Ashton pokes the ball home after Jose Reina spills Matthew Etherington's shot to make it 2-0 on 28 minutes

Liverpool are shaken but Djibril Cisse fires home Gerrard's cross four minutes later to get the Reds back in the game

Gerrard gets Liverpool back on equal terms with a top-quality strike as this FA Cup final shapes up to be one of the greats

The crowd go wild as Paul Konchesky's attempted cross from 25 yards loops over the hapless Reina to make it 3-2

But it's not over yet; Gerrard volleys a magical strike from 35 yards on 90 minutes to send the game into extra time

Rafael Benitez and Alan Pardew urge their players through the pain barrier as a nervy period of extra time plays out

The match goes to penalties; Bobby Zamora, Paul Konchesky and Anton Ferdinand fail to score and West Ham are defeated

Jose Reina rues his earlier mistakes no longer as his spot-kick heroics seal Liverpool's seventh FA Cup win

The victorious players - including penalty-scorers Dietmar Hamann, Gerrard and John Arne Riise - surge towards Reina

Inspirational captain Steven Gerrard hoists the FA Cup aloft to the delight of his team-mates and the ecstatic fans