Keegan: we're happy with revival

Kevin Keegan believes that Newcastle have answered their critics after their mini-revival that has seemingly kept them in the Premiership for the next season. A 4-1 win over Tottenham did much to improve confidence.

"We always said we could answer any critics and any people who were having a go at us on a football field and that's what we did," he claimed.

"That's pleasing. It is no good me standing here getting annoyed at people who have written stuff that isn't true or is wide of the mark.

"We just kept quiet and said: 'Let us do something about it, let us write the stories, let us make the headlines'.

"We have done that in the last couple of weeks in the only way you can at a football club, and that is on the field, by playing well and getting results.

"These players have started to show me ? and more importantly themselves - that there is a lot of ability at this football club.

"I am as optimistic as I have always been."