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The Premier League champions are struggling to keep pace with leaders Chelsea and face an uphill battle to stay in the Champions League after last week’s chastening 2-1 home defeat by Barcelona in the last 16 first leg.

Having lost in the FA Cup to second tier Middlesbrough, the Chilean’s hopes of backing up last season’s title and League Cup with more trophies look slim, leading to inevitable speculation about his job.

Asked a Tuesday’s news conference whether he was concerned, he said: “No. I never haven’t any pressure to win an amount of titles, to win a title every year if I want to continue here.”

“The only pressure is when I don’t see my team playing like I want it to.

“Never when I sign a contract do they tell me I have to win the title every year, or five titles in five years,” he added.

“Only one team wins and that doesn’t mean all the others are failures. There are different ways to analyse a season, the title is important but not the only important thing.”

City go into Wednesday’s home match against bottom club Leicester City five points adrift of Chelsea who also have a game in hand. Third-placed Arsenal are only four points behind Pellegrini’s side.

Sunday’s 2-1 defeat by Liverpool was a hammer blow for City and left them five points worse off than they were after 27 games of last season when they surged through to take the title for the second time in three seasons.

“We are second, we have just two or three points less than last year and we continue in the Champions League,” said Pellegrini.

“I don’t think it’s important to think about what happened in the past, it’s important to think about what will happen in the future, to improve, to be consistent for 90 minutes and not have those bad moments in games.

“The concern is to win the next 11 games. It’s important to trust in what we do because I think it’s the same team that won the League Cup and Premier League last season, that scored a lot of goals.”

(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)

BlackBerry may be launching four new smartphones over the coming year, but the struggling company is staking its future on becoming a giant in software.

“We are committed to making software as a business,” Chen said at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona on Tuesday.

“We are going to evolve.”

The company that once popularised handsets with full keyboards has had to reassess its goals since sales failed to keep up with other smartphones in recent years.

Though it presented its new BlackBerry Leap on Tuesday – a “low-to-mid” market phone that will go on sale in Europe in April and be followed by three more handsets – its focus was on software.

In particular, it wants to make its more business-friendly applications, such as its messaging service, available to non-BlackBerry phones.

It will roll out over the next year the BlackBerry Experience, a set of three software packages crafted to improve security and communications for business and government customers.

It also presented its Work Life software designed to allow companies to separate billing and communications on employees’ smartphones used for both private and business.

The Canadian smartphone maker once commanded 50 per cent of the US market, but has seen its share evaporate as consumers flock to devices made by Apple and those run on Google’s Android operating system, like the popular Samsung models.

Chen’s major move to transform BlackBerry came in November, when it separated its most successful applications from its devices and made them available for the operating systems of would-be competitors.

It has since struck new deals to provide software to Samsung.

Chen said BlackBerry will try and strike a balance.

“We are going to compete with Samsung and we are going to collaborate with Samsung,” Chen said.

“We have a very small hardware percentage around the world today, so our strategy is to expand our server-available market by making it cross-platform. We can now have a business that spans 99 per cent of the market.”

Hardware sales still represent 73 per cent of BlackBerry’s revenues, and Chen said his vision is that devices and software become “two pillars” of his business.

Suarez, who scored one goal and was involved in the other two in a 3-1 victory over the Andalusian side, was clearly not happy as he walked off the pitch to be replaced by Pedro Rodriguez in the closing stages.

But ahead of the King’s Cup semi-final second leg against Villarreal, Luis Enrique said it was not a worry for Suarez to be substituted late in a game.

“I’m not looking at what took place off the field,” he told a news conference.

“When I played I didn’t want to be involved in every minute. In the kickabouts and in matches where the substitutes were playing, I wasn’t bothered about playing then.”

The Catalan side have beaten Villarreal twice in the league this season and hold a 3-1 lead from the first leg at the Nou Camp.

If they can finish off the job they will face either local rivals Espanyol or Athletic Bilbao, who drew 1-1 in the first leg.

“Barca always go out to win the games and the objective in the return leg of the cup is to beat Villarreal,” Luis Enrique said.

“If we win the game then there is no possibility of a surprise.”

Barca’s devastating forward line of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Suarez have scored 32 goals since the start of the year.

“We are in top condition considering the stage of the season and the minutes already played,” Luis Enrique said. “To score will be more than important for us.”

Villarreal held Real Madrid to a 1-1 draw in La Liga last weekend and have impressed this season with the quality of their football and a solid backline.

The fact Villarreal coach Marcelino rested several players against Real also suggests they have not written off the tie.

“Until the game starts we don’t know what Villarreal are going to do and this is the doubt,” Luis Enrique said.

“The Villarreal side that we have seen in other league games is different to the one that has faced us,” he added.

“In the other matches they have created chances with the ball, they have been dangerous and used the wings.”

(Editing by Ed Osmond)

For decades the country sought to investigate East Germany’s systematic doping before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 but there were indications doping was also present in West German sports.

Those suggestions have now, in part, been substantiated, said the evaluation commission on Freiburg University’s doping past with evidence pointing to cycling and football.

The 60-page report itself has not been published yet but Monday’s two-page statement released by one of the commission members, and confirmed by the commission, was enough to cause a furore.

Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart, who won the league in 1984, and Freiburg, in the second division at the time of the claims, said they had yet to see the report which goes back decades, making cross-referencing information difficult.

Germany’s cycling federation (BDR) was reserved in its reaction on Tuesday.

“For the last 10 years, the German cycling federation has positioned itself clearly in the fight against doping and through prevention and information contribute to a new generation that sees manipulation for what it is. Cheating,” BDR general secretary Martin Wolf said.

Germany’s sacred cow — the Bundesliga football league — has never seen such allegations with only a handful of positive doping tests in the past several decades.

All of these were quickly dismissed as the fault of individuals rather than a network of organised doping, keeping the league’s drugs-free image intact.

But it must now face the most serious allegations yet with Stuttgart and Freiburg players having allegedly used banned substances.

The German Football Association (DFB) said that although it had not been informed of the case, it wanted full transparency.

“There are grave allegations here that of course need to be completely and fully cleared up,” DFB Vice President Rainer Koch said on the DFB website.

“One has to admit that the anti-doping fight in those years was not being conducted seriously and at the DFB it was not dealt with as meticulously as one would have wished.

“Today German football is very consistent and strict in its fight against doping. Especially in the last 20 years a lot has changed and a lot has been done,” he said.

The Football League (DFL), contacted by Reuters, did not want to comment on the findings at this time.

At the heart of the issue is former Freiburg University’s sports trauma unit chief Armin Kluemper, who allegedly provided athletes with anabolic steroids.

Evaluation commission member Fritz Soergel said, especially for football, it was time to confront these allegations.

“The DFB has been confronted with this since yesterday,” Soergel told German ZDF television. “After these revelations… and because football is the people’s sport, the most popular sport, no stone should be left unturned.”

(Editing by Ed Osmond)

Some 370 girls may have suffered sexual exploitation in one English county in the last 16 years.

The damning indictment of failings by police and social workers in Oxfordshire echoed an investigation last year in northwest England, which produced a larger catalogue of abuse and failures by authorities to act on information that might have prevented abuse.

Though the serious case review published on Tuesday found no wilful professional misconduct by organisations, it cited a “worrying lack of curiosity and follow through.”

The release of the report came as Prime Minister David Cameron warned of sexual abuse on an “industrial scale” in Britain and accused people and organisations of “walking on by” when faced with abuse.

Cameron deemed sexual exploitation a “national threat,” on a par with organised crime, and said he was considering measures to make public officials accountable if they fail protect children from sexual exploitation.

The proposed measures were outlined at a meeting called by Cameron that brought police, healthcare experts and ministers together with victims.

An estimated 1400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham, a northern England town. A report last year that cited “collective failures” by authorities between 1997 and 2013 shocked the country and led to calls for action.

Alan Bedford, author of the Oxfordshire report, said the review panel was “conscious that these numbers may seem low given the higher figures in Rotherham, but the work was carefully done and was debated and agreed by panel members.”

Nine men were charged in Oxfordshire and seven were convicted, with five drawing life sentences. Further investigations and trials continue.

“What happened to the child victims of the sexual exploitation in Oxfordshire was indescribably awful,” the review said.

“The child victims and their families feel very let down. Their accounts of how they perceived professional work are disturbing and chastening.”

Though the defendants were predominantly of Pakistani origin and the victims were white, the report said no evidence was seen of “any agency not acting when they should have done because of racial sensitivities.”