After their draw with Sunderland, Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate accepts they're scrapping for their Premiership lives.

He said: "The thing that stands out for me more than anything else is that this is a cut-throat industry.

"Everybody outside your football club will try to destabilise your football club, and what players and fans have to realise is that's why it's important they stick together and that our club stays strong, because everybody else is trying to bring you down.

"That's what we are having to deal with at the moment. Everything that we possibly could have thrown at us we are getting thrown at us.

"That's why it was crucial that we got something from the afternoon.

"We all left disappointed not to have three points, but if you can't win, then you make sure you don't lose."