Lee Bowyer was back at The Valley and was booked early on, along with then Charlton star Scott Parker, after an early tussle.
Twenty minutes in and West Ham were ahead, when a Cisse strike was deflected in by Charlton defender Richard Rufus. With five minutes left until half-time, Claus Jensen equalised with a fantastic free-kick and Parker put The Addicks ahead in stoppage time.
Parker then doubled the lead early on in the second half, but with half an hour left, another own goal, this time from Mark Fish, brought The Hammers back into the game.
The score remained the same until injury time, when an unlikely source in Radostin Kishishev secured the three points in a pulsating 4-2 win. Charlton's home Premiership record over The Hammers remained unbeaten, and it would be a couple of seasons until The Irons would be back in SE7, after a final day relegation, in which Bolton stayed up.
In the final instalment tomorrow, Pards and Curbs meet at The Valley for the first time... in opposite dugouts to the ones they will be in this Saturday!!