Southgate prescribes hard work

Defiant Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate insisted he would fight to turn around his side’s season after another home defeat left them teetering on the brink of the Barclays Premier League relegation zone.

Tim Cahill’s scruffy 50th-minute winner secured a seventh away league win of the season for injury-plagued Everton and heaped more woe upon Boro after last weekend’s dismal 3-0 defeat at Fulham.