Tottenham Hotspur 2 Birmingham 3

Tottenham Hotspur 2 Birmingham City 3
Keane (48, 52); McSheffrey (24), Jerome (62), Larsson (90).
A great start for new manager Alex McLeish. A mobile Birmingham team beat Spurs with a brilliant stoppage-time winner from Larsson, who powerfully bent the ball away from ex-England keeper Robinson into the top corner of the net.
Two factors contributed to the win: the sending off of Spurs' best player Robbie Keane, who'd already scored two goals [video evidence would have helped the referee in making this call - would Spurs have lost if he had still been on the pitch?]; and the bringing onto the field of forward Forssell when many other managers would have shored up a midfield that was being bossed by Spurs' Tom Huddlestone (how Derby must wish they could've held on to him).
The introduction by McLeish of ex-Juventus player Olivier Kapo, not well known in England but a French u21 midfielder with an excellent record of three goals in nine international matches, added real class to the attacking side of Birmingham's game. With a bit of strengthening of the City defence, Birmingham look like they will pose problems to any opponent. Jerome too was a handful up front for the feeble-looking Spurs defence, and scored a great individual goal to bring the scores level at 2 - 2.
Spurs are still lacking in the the following areas: centre backs, defensive midfield and goalkeeper.