15 Biggest Opening Day Shocks in Premier League History

13. Sunderland 1-0 Spurs - 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMADzYrMrM8 For over a year, Sunderland had slowly emerged as the new media darlings. No longer mocked and jeered for their exceedingly brutal Premier League campaigns of 2003 and 2005, Roy Keane had attraction an air of fascination to the club, as onlookers awaited their latest foray into the top-flight. So far, Keane had failed to attract any players of substantial quality, and instead of England international David Nugent, he was forced to overpay for former Geordie Michael Chopra. His first game as Premier League manager was a baptism of fire - a home clash with a star-studded Spurs side, consistently challenging for European football. The Irish boss delivered. The usually prolific Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane dynamic toiled up front in search of a goal, with the £16.5 million substitute in Darren Bent faring no better, as the Mackems stifled and frustrated the North Londoners. In the dying moments, the roof was almost lifted off the Stadium of Light, as the unlikely hero announced himself in the form of the boy who had previously scored his first ever top-flight goal on this very ground - in the colours of black and white. Latching on to a Ross Wallace cross, a boyhood dream of emulating Alan Shearer evaporated in an instant, as he steered the ball past a hapless Paul Robinson to the sparse incredulity of the Sunderland support. Wheeling away in sheer delirium and with arms outstretched, Chopra's well-placed finish had steered his former nemesis to the perfect start to Premier League life.