Monday Pressure Shift: Holistic leaders City share the burden, throw down gauntlet to the rest
(WorldNews Sport)

Manchester City were pounced upon by the British media, ridiculed for the cringe-inducing management buzzword they used to outline their plans for world domination. The club, it insisted, had `a need to develop a holistic approach to all aspects of football`. The reaction perhaps said more about the country´s commentators than it did about the direction City were taking under the likes of Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain. Introducing a coherent approach from top to bottom seemed a perfectly logical approach for an organisation seeking to conquer the bizarrely schizophrenic world of elite-level football. And on Sunday, as City shrugged aside rivals United in the Manchester derby at...