The importance of staying in the Premier League was not lost on Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp on Friday with the basement side eyeing rare back-to-back wins.
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QPR, who host 14th-placed Sunderland on Saturday, are four points adrift of safety and Redknapp is eyeing another win after last week's against Southampton - only their third in the league all season.
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Having just survived on the final day of last season QPR face an even more pressing relegation battle this time, especially with the Premier League's new domestic television rights deal worth one billion pounds ($1.50 billion) per year.
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"We need back-to-back wins. I think it was World War One when we last did that," said a jovial Redknapp, who has galvanised QPR since his appointment in November.
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"If we can do that it puts us right back in the picture," Redknapp told the club's website (www.qpr.co.uk).
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"I've been optimistic all along and I still feel we'll stay up. We're ready to go. We're ready to give everything."
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Redknapp said keeper Julio Cesar and forward Bobby Zamora were injury doubts but given their importance to the team they would be given until the last minute to prove their fitness.
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Opposite number Martin O'Neill said Redknapp had reversed QPR's fortunes since his arrival.
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"QPR is a difficult issue. They will be fighting for everything having won last week. It will be a monumental battle," the Northern Irishman told Sunderland's website (www.safc.com).
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O'Neill, whose side sit six points clear of relegation and only three behind 10th-placed Fulham in a congested bottom half of the table, is confident Sunderland will stay in the Premier League going on recent performances.