Complacency Red Alert
"There is no chance we'll take the foot off the pedal. It is all about putting pressure on and seeing who handles it the best," Keane stated.
If United win both their remaining games they will take the title and Keane said: "It helps that we've been in this position before. We have the experience.
"A few months ago we were written off and it was looking an uphill struggle. The players, the manager and the staff deserve a lot of credit to be back in with a shout," the former Republic of Ireland midfielder added.
But he warned: "It is important not to get carried away. People were getting carried away with Arsenal's result at Bolton but we still had work to do.
"We have tough matches to go - against Charlton and at Everton on the final day - and if Arsenal win their game in hand it will be down to two points. There is still a lot of hard work to do. It is all to play for.
"But if someone had said two months ago it was in our hands we'd have been delighted. The spirit in the squad is the best I've known it at the club."
United's goal machine Ruud van Nistelrooy piled on the pressure on Arsenal yesterday, insisting that his phenomenal scoring season is not over yet.
His late match-clinching effort at White Hart Lane yesterday saw him become only the second player in Old Trafford history to find the net 40 times in a single campaign, an astonishing return for a man whose sluggish early-season performances earned sustained and unfounded criticism.
"I very happy with 40 goals it is a nice amount to score, but the most important thing is to keep the run going into the final two matches," said the super striker.
"I want to try and score a few more because that would help us win the league. With most teams, if you miss the amount of chances we did in the first-half at Spurs, they would start to think: 'maybe it's not our day'," admitted van Nistelrooy.
"It doesn't seem to bother us. We just keep going because we know if we keep creating chances, eventually we will score one.
"It's not just about scoring goals though, you have to keep them out at the other end and our defence won us the game yesterday because they didn't give anything away.
"That gave the attackers a chance to go on and win it."
The Gunners, on the other hand, are struggling to put a team together for the last few games of their collapsing season with manager Arsène Wenger bitterly accusing Bolton of a dirty-tricks campaign which has kicked a major dent in the Gunners' Double ambitions.
Midfielder Freddie Ljungberg, full-back Lauren and centre-half Pascal Cygan are the latest to join the Highbury injury list after limping off at Bolton on Saturday.
Ljungberg and Lauren both have ankle ligament damage and are fighting to be fit for the FA Cup final after challenges by, respectively, Jay-Jay Okocha, Bolton's Nigerian star, and Frenchman Florent Laville who was eventually sent off following another wild challenge on Ashley Cole in the closing seconds of the game much to the fury of outspoken Bolton boss Sam Allardyce.
"They were eliminated by bad tackles," fumed Wenger, who fears the pair could be struggling to be fit for the end-of-season Cardiff Millennium Stadium showpiece against Southampton in three weeks along with skipper Patrick Vieira, over whom there are now worries that a knee injury could wipe out the rest of his campaign.
Wenger fumed: "I don't like the way Allardyce prepared that game with the referee. He put him under unbelievable pressure."
Allardyce was widely reported before the game issuing a thinly-veiled warning to Essex official Andy D'Urso that, in his view, referees generally "showed a huge bias towards top teams" and that Arsenal "regularly intimidated referees".
But Wenger also admitted: "I have a lot of regrets about the two bad goals we conceded at Bolton. With the experience we have it was very disappointing. All we can do now is try to win our last three league matches and hope teams show the same commitment against Manchester United as Bolton did against us."
Ljungberg and Lauren, though, already look certain to miss Sunday's home clash with Leeds United when, if United have won at home to Charlton 24 hours earlier, anything other than an Arsenal victory will end the title race. "Patrick Vieira is slowly getting better and his long-term future is, happily, not in doubt."
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