Emile Heskey repaid a slice of his £6.25million club record transfer fee as he headed Birmingham City to their first win of the season against Manchester City at St Andrew's.
Heskey struck for the first time since his close season move from Liverpool with a seventh minute header.
Ironically, it was also the first goal he had scored since he was on target for Liverpool in their 3-0 win at St Andrew's on May 8.
The only disappointment for Heskey and Birmingham was that he limped off after 53 minutes with a leg injury.
Birmingham had dominated proceedings against Chelsea last Saturday and lost 1-0. They did not hit the same heights against City but secured the desired result.
While Birmingham were able to celebrate their first three points of the season, Heskey's strike sentenced Manchester City to a second successive away defeat following their 2-1 loss at Liverpool last weekend.
But Kevin Keegan's side, who have collected just one point from their opening three games of the season, only had themselves to blame as they should really have opened the scoring after just two minutes.
It was a double miss that would quickly come back to haunt the Blues of Manchester.
A neat throughball from Claudio Reyna released Shaun Wright-Phillips. The diminutive England international midfielder had little trouble in skipping past the challenge of Birmingham left-back Stan Lazaridis.
Wright-Phillips then fed the ball into the feet of Nicolas Anelka who was just ten yards away from goal with only keeper Maik Taylor to beat.
But the Frenchman miskicked horribly with the ball luckily rebounding into the path of Robbie Fowler.
But the finishing of the England marksman was no better and his tame shot was easily saved by Taylor.
The double let-off was one that Birmingham grabbed with both hands and they were ahead just five minutes later through Heskey.
Lazaridis made up for his earlier error when he whipped in a left-wing cross.
Heskey was being challenged by both Sylvain Distin and Ben Thatcher but he used his power to steer a header from eight yards beyond a stunned David James.
It was a blow that Manchester City struggled to come to terms with and it took them fully 26 minutes to mount a response.
Once again, Fowler's finishing left a lot to be desired when he was picked out on the far post by a right-wing cross from Sun Jihai.
Fowler was unmarked inside the six-yard box but failed to get his header on target as it flashed across the face of goal.
Birmingham should then really have gone on to record a far more comfortable success.
But a combination of some poor finishing and a super save from James frustrated Birmingham.
Mikael Forssell flashed a 48th minute header over the bar after a free-kick from Muzzy Izzet.
James then denied Stern John after 66 minutes with a marvellous one-handed save.
Manchester City's best chance to salvage a point from the game came 16 minutes from time through Danny Mills who was jeered all night by the Birmingham fans following his run-in with Robbie Savage last season.
Mills was picked out by a centre from Trevor Sinclair but his close-range header was deflected wide by Birmingham midfielder Damien Johnson.