Kyle Naughton, Bersant Celina and Borja Baston – who celebrated his 27th birthday by becoming the division’s top scorer – were on target as Birmingham’s resistance crumbled after the break.

Manchester United may have finished only sixth in the table last season but they comfortably retained their position as the leading developers of Premier League talent.

Carlos Carvalhal's return to Hillsborough ended in stalemate as Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea played out a goalless draw in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Swansea climbed out of the relegation zone for the first time in three months as Petr Cech's dreadful clanger helped condemn Arsenal to a 3-1 defeat at the Liberty Stadium.

Bottom-side Swansea picked up a crucial and surprising three Premier League points.

Even the most pessimistic of Fantasy Premier League pundits never thought it would get this bad.

With the international break and the phoney wars of the transfer window now thankfully behind us, FPL managers can focus on the season ‘proper’.

Swansea climbed out of the relegation zone and left Hull back in the bottom three after a 1-0 win over Everton at the Liberty Stadium.

Swansea 1 Tottenham 3: Three goals in a remarkable final 10 minutes at the Liberty Stadium kept alive Tottenham’s faint hopes of winning the Premier League title.

Tottenham kept their Premier League title ambitions alive by staging an extraordinary late show at relegation-threatened Swansea.

Swansea 0 Arsenal 4: Arsenal’s Petr Cech is confident a collective effort from the chasing pack will keep the pressure on runaway Premier League leaders Chelsea.

Goalkeeper Petr Cech welcomed Arsenal's 4-0 win at Swansea by insisting every goal could count in the chase for Premier League glory.

Crystal Palace eased their growing worries as a 3-0 victory at home to Southampton ended a six-match losing streak.

Swansea 1 Manchester City 2: Manchester City recorded their ninth successive win under Pep Guardiola by seeing off EFL Cup opponents Swansea at the Liberty Stadium.

Swansea 2 Sunderland 4: Jermain Defoe struck a hat-trick as Sunderland won a thrilling Premier League relegation battle at Swansea.

Jermain Defoe struck a hat-trick as Sunderland won a thrilling Premier League relegation battle.

Swansea 2 Manchester United 1: Manchester United lost for the first time in the Premier League this season to leave Louis van Gaal both frustrated and disappointed with his side’s trip to south Wales.

Sunderland 1 Swansea City 1: Sunderland skipper John O’Shea has urged his team-mates to use their first point of the season as a springboard to ease themselves up the Barclays Premier League.

Jermain Defoe answered Sunderland’s call in their hour of need to hand head coach Dick Advocaat a first Barclays Premier league point of the season.

PREMIER LEAGUE RESULTS: Sunderland 1-3 Norwich, Swansea 2-0 Newcastle, Tottenham 2-2 Stoke, Watford 0-0 West Brom, West Ham 1-2 Leicester

Swansea City 3 Hull City 1: Hull defender Paul McShane admits the Premier League relegation battle is too close to call.

Tottenham 3 Swansea 2

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Rudy Gestede showed why he is reported to be interesting a number of Premier League sides with the crucial goal as Blackburn sent nine-man Swansea tumbling out of the FA Cup in the fourth round.

Mauricio Pochettino has urged Tottenham fans to stop booing Emmanuel Adebayor for the betterment of the team.

Kyle Naughton has revealed he left Tottenham for Swansea to play regular first-team football.

Capital One Cup semi-final first leg

Kyle Naughton is set to miss Tottenham’s Capital One Cup semi-final against boyhood club Sheffield United as a move to Swansea edges closer.

England right-back Kyle Walker has returned to Tottenham training after eight months out with an abdominal injury.

Tottenham 1 Stoke 2

Spurs 1 Stoke 2

Emmanuel Adebayor is again absent for Tottenham’s Europa League travels, but head coach Mauricio Pochettino denied his non-appearance against Asteras Tripolis is symptomatic of a wider problem.

Harry Kane hit a late winner as Tottenham clinched a 2-1 victory in a bad-tempered clash with 10-man Aston Villa.

Tottenham secured safe passage into the last eight of the Capital One Cup with an unconvincing 2-0 victory against out-of-form Brighton on largely uninspiring night at White Hart Lane.

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino believes Sergio Aguero is the best out-and-out striker in the world, likening the Argentinian’s genius to Mozart.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 8 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

Tottenham 1 Southampton 0

Arsenal and Tottenham battled out a 1-1 draw in today’s Barclays Premier League north London derby at the Emirates Stadium.

Partizan Belgrade 0 Tottenham 0

Tottenham 3 AEL 0 (Spurs win 5-1 on aggregate)

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Debutant Eric Dier scored a dramatic injury-time winner to get Mauricio Pochettino’s era at Tottenham off to a winning start against London rivals West Ham.

Martin O’Neill yesterday refused to be drawn on speculation that he is set to run the rule over Spurs striker Harry Kane who, although an England U21 international, is still eligible to play for Ireland through his Galway-born father.

Spurs 3 Southhampton 2

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Roberto Soldado's first goal in nine games fired Tottenham to a 1-0 Premier League victory over struggling Cardiff at White Hart Lane.

Kyle Naughton does not think Tottenham can use their gruelling Europa League campaign as an excuse for falling off the pace in the Barclays Premier League.