Hello and welcome to Kicking Off, our new daily bulletin on all that is happening in sport today.
Today
- Ronny Deila is fed up of having to watch the wrong kind of pyrotechnics
- Martyn Waghorn sets his sights on 40 goals this season as Mark Warburton suggests there is better to come from the Rangers striker
- Darian MacKinnon reckons he and his team-mates should be the ones blamed for Hamilton’s shock cup exit rather than boss Martin Canning
- Mo Farah suffers a rare defeat but his Scottish endurance coach admits he is just happy that the double Olympic and world champ survived the conditions in his native land
- UK Athletics launch "A Manifesto for Clean Athletics" citing the need for "transparency, trust and credibility"
- Ice cool Kevin Koe and his team demonstrate why they are curling’s hottest property as the sport raises its Scottish profile
- Glasgow Warriors may not have to deal with their submerged Scotstoun home for a few weeks yet but they are yet again struggling to stay afloat in European competition
06.05 BBC Radio Scotland sports headlines
Deila says fans damaging club's reputation as they await fifth round draw
Scrum-half Ali Price says Glasgow will rediscover winning quality
06.25 BBC Radio Five Live sports headlines
Oxford look forward to FA Cup fifth round draw after shocking Premiership Swansea
UK athletics release manifesto to clean up sport
Bath need to win last two matches to progress in Europe but big win for Ulster
Defending champion Shaun Murphy beaten in first round by Mark Allen at snooker's Masters
Scott Waites wins BDO World Darts title
Jordan Spieth says he is still nowhere near Tiger Woods' achievements
Seattle Seahawks beat Minnesota in NFL play-offs
The back pages
Grandstanding – the sports comment sections
In his weekly column for The Herald Matthew Lindsay explains why he reckons Rangers could have the last laugh on their detractors with their signings from Accrington Stanley, while Neil Cameron offers his view on why Aberdeen deserve to be considered ‘chokers’ and Edinburgh rugby coach Alan Solomons outlines the case for a nine month global season.
Rangers recruit Matt Crooks
Other sport
A disappointed Mo Farah suffers a rare defeat, while appearing to set out on a charm offensive as he slithers to second place in Edinburgh...
...but another world class performer prevails as Koe slides to victory in Perth
Sporting twitterati
Scott Mullen posted this overnight
Apparently, the state that Celtic left the dressing room in at Stranraer pic.twitter.com/sR4liPvPa8
— Iain Strachan (@iainstrachan74) January 10, 2016
Could be there's some mischief at play of course, but whichever club or individual was responsible for this mess could pick up a few tips from the standards the All Blacks, the world's most successul team in any sport, set for themselves.
Today's top message
Some time has elapsed since anyone other than those with an agenda saw Andy Murray as the volatile, humourless character he was originally portrayed as by broad sections of the media. Increasingly, however, he is emerging as that rarest of creatures, a sporstperson who is entitled to be considered a 'role model', not that he would probably thank anyone for the description. It was not only his decision to come up with an inventive charity fund-raiser, but his choice of charity, in seeking to help children afflicted by the Syrian refugee crisis, that demonstrated an awareness of the wider world he lives in, from which he could easily have become detached given his age and wealth.
The Diary
Rangers great Brian Laudrup and darts world champion Gary Anderson make the Scottish Cup fifth round draw and SPFL player and manager of the month awards are also set to be announced
World darts champion Gary Anderson who is involved in today's Scottish Cup fifth round draw
Thanks for reading. We'll have news from that draw and much more here tomorrow.
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