Mid-week NBL Basketball action Falcons Vs Vegetarian 6:30PM City Oilers Vs Charging Rhinos 8:30PM The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial has ordered him to start daily tests on Monday to assess his mental state when he killed his girlfriend. Judge Thokozile Masipa told the South African athlete to attend Weskoppies psychiatric hospital in Pretoria as an outpatient for a month. It comes after a defence witness said the double amputee was suffering from Generalised Anxiety Disorder (Gad). Mr Pistorius denies intentionally killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He says he accidentally shot her through the toilet door on Valentines Day last year in a state of panic, mistaking the 29-year-old model and law graduate for an intruder. Yaya Toure has fuelled talk of a possible departure from Manchester City by saying he does not know who he will be playing for next season. The midfielders agent, Dimitri Seluk, indicated he could leave because he felt he had been treated with a lack of respect by the clubs owners. Now Toure, 31, has said everything is open when it comes to his future. Asked if he could be playing for another club, he replied: Yes. We never know in football. We never know. Toure signed a new four-year contract with City in April last year. However, his future was thrown into doubt when his agent claimed that Citys owners showed him a lack of respect on his 31st birthday. Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale will be fit to play for Real Madrid in Saturdays Champions League final against Atletico Madrid. Ronaldo, 29, missed Reals last two games, while fellow forward Bale, 24, sat out a training session on Tuesday. Defender Pepe and striker Karim Benzema remain doubts for the final in Lisbon. Benzema suffered an abductor injury in Reals 3-1 win over Espanyol at the weekend, whilst Pepe has been out of action since suffering a calf strain two weeks ago. The pair also missed training on Tuesday, but it is the fitness of Bale and Ronaldo - the two most expensive players of all time - which has drawn focus ahead of Saturdays final. Together, they have contributed 68 goals for Los Blancos in all competitions this season. Madrid are bidding to win a 10th European Cup and will end a 12-year wait for the continents top club prize if they beat the new La Liga champions - in the first ever European Cup final derby. The sides have already met four times this season, with Real emerging as 5-0 victors over two legs in the Spanish Cup and Atletico claiming a win and a draw in the league meetings. If Real win, Ancelotti will become the second manager - after former Liverpool boss Bob Paisley - to win three European Cups, having won two with AC Milan. Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has agreed terms on a four-year contract extension. The 27-year-old will finalise a deal which will keep him at the Nou Camp until 2019 in the coming days. Pique, who played for Manchester United between 2004 and 2008, was due to be out of contract in June 2015. Since returning to Barca, where he came through the youth ranks, Pique has played 266 games, winning four Spanish titles and the Champions League twice. News of his expected signature comes 24 hours after the Catalan club announced Lionel Messi had signed a new deal and former player Luis Enrique was appointed manager. German goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen has also been signed at the start of a summer where experienced figures such as Victor Valdes, Carles Puyol and Jose Manuel Pinto will leave the Nou Camp. Puyols exit leaves Pique as the clubs main central defender. New Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal wants to replicate his feats at Barcelona and Bayern Munich by winning the league in his first season. The Dutchman won the 1997-98 La Liga title at Barcelona before securing the 2009-10 Bundesliga with Bayern Munich. Three managers have won the Premier League at the first go - Chelsea duo Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti and Manuel Pellegrini at Manchester City. Van Gaal, who has signed a three-year contract at United, has won seven league titles with four different clubs - Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar and Bayern Munich - and he has set his sights on adding to that haul in his debut season. West Brom have signed midfielder Craig Gardner from Premier League rivals Sunderland on a three-year deal. The former Aston Villa player, 27, will join the Baggies, who finished just above the relegation zone, on 1 July once his Black Cats contract ends. In 18 months with the Blues he made 52 appearances, including a 2011 League Cup final triumph, before he switched to Sunderland for £6m in 2011. Claudio Ranieri has left French Ligue 1 runners-up Monaco after two years as head coach. The ex-Chelsea manager led the club to the Ligue 2 title in his first season and they finished nine points behind champions Paris St-Germain this year. Monaco are owned by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who bought the club in December 2011. Sam Allardyce is to carry on as manager at West Ham United, the Premier League club has announced. The statement on the future of the 59-year-old, in charge since June 2011, ends speculation about Allardyces role at Upton Park. Allardyce led the Hammers to 13th in the Premier League table, but has faced criticism from some supporters. West Hams announcement follows an end-of-season meeting between Allardyce and the clubs board.
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 04:44:36 +0000