{"id":491869,"date":"2026-02-26T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:42:08","slug":"tottenham-too-good-to-go-down-keane-picks-doomed-club-for-relegation-theyve-checked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491869\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham &#8216;too good to go down?&#8217; Keane picks &#8216;doomed&#8217; club for relegation \u2013 &#8216;They&#8217;ve checked out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Keane is \u201cnot falling for the \u2018too good to go down&#8217;\u201d trap as he picked a \u201cdoomed\u201d club in the relegation battle, while Ian Wright insists one moment in the North London derby proved Tottenham have already \u201cchecked out\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs are four points above the relegation zone and are very much in a battle with West Ham and Nottingham Forest to avoid the drop after Igor Tudor\u2019s arrival failed to stop the rot against Arsenal on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-16-conclusions-tottenham-1-4-arsenal-rice-gyokeres-eze-gallagher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Gunners recovered from their title wobble to dismiss Spurs 4-1 on their own patch<\/a> and extend Tottenham\u2019s winless run to nine games in the Premier League, featuring five defeats.<\/p>\n<p>And although Keane doesn\u2019t believe Spurs are \u201ctoo good to go down\u201d he does think they will \u201cfind a bit more\u201d than both West Ham and Forest in the run-in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still think they\u2019ll be alright,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheOverlap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keane said on The Overlap<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not falling for this \u2018they\u2019re too good to go down\u2019 but I do think they\u2019ll find a bit more than Nottingham Forest and West Ham. It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Ham have got a little bit of momentum going and Forest were hit with a killer blow last minute against Liverpool. These are all little momentum turners \u2013 it can all change week to week. But I still think Tottenham will have enough to stay up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/tottenham-relegated-the-five-games-that-could-condemn-spurs-to-the-drop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham relegated: the five games that could condemn Spurs to the drop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Manchester United legend picked out Forest as the \u201cmost doomed team\u201d in the battle as new manager Vitor Pereira also has the Europa League to contend with. They hold a 3-0 lead over Fenerbahce in the knockout round play-off ahead of the Turkish side\u2019s visit to the City Ground on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst thing with Forest is they\u2019ve got a distraction with Europe,\u201d Keane added. \u201cThey look the most doomed team right now. I know they have a new coach going in and you thin he needs a good start with different ideas. Again, huge weekend coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/feature-tottenham-premier-league-relegation-reassigned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool and Man Utd boosted as Tottenham players reassigned after relegation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a video which went viral after defeat to Arsenal last weekend, Tudor could be seen gesturing to Micky van de Ven \u2013 Spurs captain for the day in Cristian Romero\u2019s absence \u2013 to move up the pitch to put more pressure on the Arsenal ball carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Igor Tudor is constantly shouting at Micky van de Ven, telling the back-line to \u201cpush up!\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COYS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#COYS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#THFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KpBsZZTYjV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KpBsZZTYjV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Cowlin (@ChrisCowlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCowlin\/status\/2025618349535756744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dutch centre-back could be seen looking towards Tudor on a number of occasions but refused to take action, remaining deep as the Arsenal players came forward.<\/p>\n<p>And Wright saw that as evidence that Spurs as a whole have \u201cchecked out\u201d this season.<\/p>\n<p>Wright said: \u201cI saw Igor Tudor trying to speak to Van de Ven, trying to push him forward \u2013 he blanked him, totally blanked him. That says to me that they\u2019ve checked out already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy\u2019s new, he wants him to come up and Van de Ven ignores him. That don\u2019t look good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane is \u201cnot falling for the \u2018too good to go down&#8217;\u201d trap as he picked a \u201cdoomed\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[424,67144,3,2732,57676,403,99,4899],"class_list":["post-491869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-front-page","tag-ian-wright","tag-news","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-roy-keane","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}