Davis pounced with a bullet header in the 61st minute as Stan Ternent's First Division side produced a comeback to remember at freezing Turf Moor.

Burnley - who had lost their last three games and conceded 12 goals in the process - had gone behind to Gustavo Poyet's 17th-minute header.

But Robbie Blake drove home a 58th-minute equaliser to climax a sustained spell of home pressure at the start of the second half.

Robbie Keane smashed an injury-time effort against the crossbar as Spurs poured forward.

But a Keane equaliser would have been a travesty on a night when the Irish striker missed two of the simplest chances he will ever have.

He raced clear one minute after Blake's equaliser only to squirt a weak shot wide of Marlon Beresford's goal.

And he missed an even better chance to equalise Davis' strike late on when he bore down on goal again but scooped a weak shot straight into Beresford's arms.

Somewhere amid all the action Darren Anderton appeared as a second-half substitute for his first action in a Spurs shirt this season.

It had not looked like Anderton's influence would be needed in the opening stages when Burnley's poor recent record looked like continuing.

Graham Branch's mistake almost let in Matthew Etherington in the first minute then Gareth Taylor was forced to hack clear after Dean West gave away a dangerous free-kick.

Steffen Iversen forced a low save out of Beresford before Poyet rose highest to meet Stephen Carr's 17th-minute corner and power an unstoppable shot past the home goalkeeper.

Iversen should have put his side further ahead when he scooped an Etherington cross over the crossbar while Burnley's lack of fire in front of goal was summed up by Blake, who trickled a poor shot straight at Kasey Keller.

Poyet and Etherington had further chances before Taylor missed Burnley's best first-half chance in the 28th minute, flashing a shot across the face of goal from close-range after Blake's deep cross.

Briscoe's drive brought a one-handed save out of Keller and gave Burnley heart which they turned dramatically to their advantage in a crashing start to the second period.

Taylor headed inches over Keller's bar and Anthony Gardner had to head a Briscoe corner clear under pressure from Blake.

West was inches away in the 50th minute when he gathered Gardner's half-clearance and whacked his shot over. Two minutes later Weller also blazed a rising shot just too high as Burnley pressed.

Blake hammered the equaliser with a rising, deflected shot after Little's lay-off but Burnley immediately lived on their nerves with Keane producing the first of two shocking misses, and after Davis had struck, Keane wasted another chance to equalise.

Burnley survived and Blake was so unluckily not to extend his side's lead when he bore down on the Spurs goal and turned Chris Perry inside-out before clattering his shot against the post.

Davis rose highest to meet Little's corner to produce a carbon copy of Poyet's first-half strike and give his side a deserved lead.

Keane fluffed another simple chance before Taylor should have extended Burnley's lead at the end when Keller parried Little's shot into his path. But the ball stuck under his feet as he shaped to shoot into an empty net.

Then Keane clattered the crossbar as the drama continued right to the end.