FA Cup third round draw – as it happened

All four non-league clubs will play at home, with Marine facing Spurs, while Aston Villa v Liverpool was the pick of three all-Premier League ties

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I’ll leave you with the full FA Cup third-round draw. Please join us for West Ham v Aston Villa in the Premier League if you have nothing better to do. Bye!

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All four non-league sides got a home draw, including Marine v Tottenham Hotspur. There are three all-Premier League ties: Wolves v Crystal Palace, Arsenal v Newcastle United and, most intriguingly of all, Aston Villa v Liverpool, a game that finished 7-2 in the league.

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And that concludes the draw for the third round of the FA Cup.

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The balls are out of the bag. Here we go...

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“The FA Cup only does alphabetical order for those entering at that stage,” says Iain Brown. “Every other number relates to when they were drawn out last round. The winner of whoever is drawn out for the first match will be number 1 when the fourth round is drawn and so on.”

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“Is there rhyme or reason to the numbering beyond 44?” asks Simon McGrother. “As an OAFC fan, I’m a bit hurt by the number 64 in case this is some kind of seeding. Praying for a big pay-day. If we bang them in like we did against Bradford, nobody is safe.”

It looks like the first 44 teams are the ones who qualified automatically, ie from the top two divisions. I presume the rest were numbered before the second-round ties took place, so it wasn’t possible to do them alphabetically. Either that or someone at the FA supports a giant that Oldham slayed in 1989-90, and still hasn’t got over it.

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Hello and welcome to live coverage of the draw for the FA Cup third round. There are five non-league clubs left in the draw, with Marine, Chorley, Stockport, Canvey Island and Boreham Wood all dreaming of a Goliathan third-round tie. Only four will make it to the last 64; Canvey Island and Boreham Wood play each other in the final second-round match tonight.

The draw is scheduled to take place just after 7pm British time, and these are the relevant ball numbers:

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