Can Algeria become the first team to qualify for the knockout stages of the Africa Cup of Nations? Follow BBC Sport's live text commentary as they face Ghana. The other meeting in the group between South Africa and Senegal follows at 19:00 GMT.

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Heard the one about the player who once turned down Jose Mourinho? Bradford City winger Filipe Morais rejected a contract offer from the Chelsea boss in search of regular first-team football. Tomorrow, they will face each other in the FA Cup fourth round at Stamford Bridge.

Morais played in Mourinho's first match as Chelsea manager in 2004, a pre-season friendly at Oxford United. The 29-year-old recalls: "When he first came in, he got me straight in the first team group and got me really involved. He was fantastic with me and it will be nice to see him again and say hello."

That's just one of several intriguing FA Cup tales ahead of this weekend's fourth-round ties. Gary Rose has collected the best of them together in a piece for the BBC Sport website.

Hamilton Academical say they have turned down a bid of £300,000 for right-back Ziggy Gordon from Polish top-flight club Jagiellonia Bialystok.

They also say two top-flight English clubs have joined West Ham United in making enquiries about 20-year-old left-back Stephen Hendrie.

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The Press Association are reporting that West Brom have agreed terms to sign Shola Ameobi.

The 33-year-old former Newcastle striker is available on a free transfer, having left Gaziantep in December after just five months in Turkey.

Aberdeen can return to the summit of the Scottish Premiership this evening should they beat St Johnstone in Perth (kick-off 19:45 GMT).

Derek McInnes' side had been on a run of eight consecutive wins without conceding a goal before last weekend's 3-3 draw with Dundee.

Join our pals at BBC Scotland for full radio and text coverage later today.

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Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert says that he will not be signing Manchester City winger Scott Sinclair in the January transfer window.

Asked if there would be any more players coming in following the arrival of winger Carles Gil from Valencia, Lambert told a news conference: "The way it's looking at the moment, no.

"It's a mixture of everything really. Anything with Scott, is dead. It's just the way it is at the moment."

Pochettino on Kyle Naughton moving to Swansea: "His decision was to find a club where there is more opportunity to play. I agreed with his decision."

Manager Mauricio Pochettino was coy when asked about any transfer movement this month, saying only "you never know in football".

But he was more forthcoming on the subject of Spurs fans booing Emmanuel Adebayor. "All players need to feel the support from the stands from our supporters," he said.

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Spanish basketball brothers Pau and Marc Gasol have made history as the first European players to be voted by fans to start next month's NBA All-Stars game in New York.

Pau, who plays for the Chicago Bulls, will play his fifth All-Star game after coming second in the voting for the Eastern Conference side. Marc, of the Memphis Grizzlies, will take part for the second time - but on each previous occasion, both players had been reserves, who are chosen by a ballot of head coaches.

The Gasols are also the first brothers to both make an NBA All-Stars starting line-up. The match between the Eastern and Western Conference sides takes place on 15 February.

Dave Coulson has been supporting Cambridge United since 1974. Tonight, he will watch his son, Josh, turn out for his boyhood team against Manchester United in the FA Cup fourth round.

The 25-year-old defender has played more than 200 games for the U's, and helped them win the FA Trophy and Conference play-off final last season.

"It's surreal," Dave told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. "It will be a really proud moment. I normally cry - both Wembley appearances I was in floods of tears."

You should know the drill by now but we'll remind you anyway... BBC1, 19:30 GMT

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Scotland's Marc Warren is in a four-way tie for the lead heading into the final day of the Qatar Masters.

Warren shot a five-under-par third-round 67 in Doha to join Branden Grace, Emiliano Grillo and Bernd Wiesberger on 13 under.

England's Eddie Pepperell is two shots back after shooting a 65.

Might we point you towards the highlights tab at the top of this page? Several interesting little titbits in there that may be of interest...

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Great Britain's Laura Deas wins a bronze medal in the women's skeleton at the fifth Skeleton World Cup event of the season, in St Moritz, Switzerland, with a combined time of two minutes 20.58 seconds, with Austria's Janine Flock taking gold and Canada's Elisabeth Vathje silver.

Wrexham-based Deas won silver in the skeleton in the season's second World Cup event, in Calgary, Canada, in December.

British Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold, the overall defending World Cup champion, finishes sixth in 2:20.89, with compatriot Rose McGrandle 11th in 2:21.84.

Notts County have blocked the entire Hungarian nation from the club's Facebook page because of the number of posts about new signing Balint Bajner.

The 24-year-old former Ipswich striker was signed on Tuesday and the page attracted 1,700 new likes, with many people posting the same message: "No Bajner, no party".

The club's head of media, Jamie Dixon, said: "It was all taken in good fun but then we did have to appreciate that it was blurring the waters for everyone else on the page. We have set up a Hungarian Magpies page, which is proving quite popular so hopefully that'll take some of the traffic away."

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Manager Paul Lambert is speaking to the media ahead of Aston Villa's FA Cup fourth-round tie with Bournemouth. We'll bring you the best of his comments shortly...

Manager Nigel Pearson says Leicester City are struggling to finalise deals to bring in new players in the transfer window.

Only striker Andrej Kramaric and goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer have arrived so far, while deals for Wigan's Shaun Maloney and Japanese forward Shinji Okazaki have failed to materialise.

"Any potential targets are proving to be difficult. It is very much a case of stalemate," Pearson said. "The temptation in the window is to do business you may not always do, but we will try to do what's right for where we are at the moment."

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"Funny trying to watch John play with chopsticks," writes former world snooker champion Neil Robertson as he posts this picture of another former snooker world champions, John Higgins, keeping himself entertained in China.

Sam Allardyce and Arsene Wenger would make unlikely bedfellows, so it is little surprise that the pair disagree over the issue of work permits in football.

While Arsenal manager Wenger has called for them to be scrapped, his West Ham counterpart is having none of it.

"I don't agree at all," he said. "That [abolishing the work permit rule] for me, as an Englishman, is a real no-no. Protect your own. We very rarely do it in this country and haven't done it up until now."

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Former Hearts defender Ryan McGowan is expected to sign for Dundee United later on Friday.

It is understood the 25-year-old, who represented Australia at the 2014 World Cup, is at Tannadice to discuss terms.

McGowan, who most recently played for Chinese club Shandong Luneng Taishan, is likely to undergo a medical this afternoon.

How short do you like your shorts to be? Andy Murray is, apparently, keen on short shorts...

But how short does he mean? Shorter than those worn by his Scottish compatriots in the 1986 World Cup finals?

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