Tottenham earned a late winner in the 2-1 defeat of Birmingham and condemned the Blues to Championship football next season. Roman Pavlyuchenko opened the scoring for Spurs just after the break but when Craig Gardner equalised other results seemed to be mean the Blues would be safe.
But Wolves' second goal in their 3-2 defeat at home to Blackburn put City back in the bottom three on goal difference and when Pavlyuchenko scored the injury time winner it consigned this season's League Cup winners to second tier football next term.
Referee: Mark Clattenburg
Venue: White Hart Lane Attendance: 36,119
Tottenham scorers: Pavlyuchenko 49, 90+3 Birmingham scorers: Gardner 79
TOTTENHAM 23 Cudicini 04 Kaboul 20 Dawson 26 King 06 Huddlestone (Kranjcar 83) 07 Lennon 14 Modric 25 Rose 30 Sandro 15 Crouch (Pavlyuchenko 39) 18 Defoe
Substitutes 01 Gomes, 22 Corluka, 32 Assou-Ekotto, 08 Jenas, 12 Palacios, 21 Kranjcar, 09 Pavlyuchenko
BIRMINGHAM 26 Foster 02 Carr 05 Johnson 06 Ridgewell (yellow card) 32 Davies 07 Larsson (Derbyshire 75 (yellow card) 08 Gardner 12 Ferguson (yellow card) 18 Fahey 23 Beausejour 10 Jerome
Substitutes 13 Doyle, 03 Murphy, 20 Valles Prat, 25 Mutch, 27 Redmond, 14 Derbyshire, 30 Asante
