Both sets of players running through their warm-ups now. Salford City don't usually have squad numbers but tonight they have names on the back of their shirts.

Lewis Hardcastle (15) and James Poole (12) have chosen to break the 1-11 run in the starting line-up. Annoys me more than it should do. Nobody has picked the seven shirt in the whole squad...

What is the most ridiculous, most arduous, most relationship-straining, plain daft matchday journey you have ever undertaken?  

Will Hammond: 296 miles from Brighton to Burnley for a lunchtime kick off. Standard 5am leave.

Steven Holland: Rangers to Osasuna, changed day of game after flights booked, so cheapest route was Stansted to Frankfurt then Frankfurt to Santander on matchday

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Former Manchester United striker Danny Webber again leads the line for Salford City having scored in the win over Notts County in the last round. Richie Allen also scored in that victory after coming on as a substitute and he is rewarded with a start this time around.

Salford XI: J Lynch, C Lynch, O'Halloran, Stopforth, Howson, Dawson, Hardcastle, Burton, Webber, Allen, Poole.

Hartlepool bring in forward Scott Fenwick for the cup-tied Kai Naismith, while defender Carl Magnay is fit to play having gone off injured in Saturday’s game with Oxford United.

Hartlepool XI: Carson, Duckworth, Bates, Jackson, Carroll, Featherstone, Magnay, Gray, Oates, Mandron,  Fenwick.

Also Oliver, how many Villa fans are there in LA? Must be a small fan club these days. Doubt Nigel Spink gets mobbed on Sunset Strip. 

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Carwyn Tywyn: Peterborough v Brighton #bhafc, external FA Cup round five,1986. One of the few that day to play. Goodness knows how...   , external

Oliver Hodgetts: Flew from LA to see Villa lose 4-0 in the Cup final. I was back by Sunday lunchtime.

It would have been worth it if they won though - right?

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No sign of Gary Neville - with the latest word that he will not be in Salford tonight after all - but Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt have just popped their heads into the home changing room.

Butt is on crutches, a result of an injury sustained in a recent charidee match.

The third-round draw takes place on Monday - when the big boys come to the party.

If your team are in the running, you'll be wanting to know the numbers.

You can read up on them all here., external Number 50 the one to avoid, clearly...

There could be some decent action in the dugouts tonight. Viewers of the BBC documentary on Salford City recently will know that management duo Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley take no prisoners, and Hartlepool boss Ronnie Moore is no stranger to a dust-up either.

It's not often you hear an Arcade Fire album track in a football ground. Salford City have won me over in one fell swoop.

The BBC cameras pick out a decorated Christmas Tree somewhere nearby - too soon?

Hartlepool will have no misty-eyed memories of playing in front of the BBC cameras - as last year they were dumped out by Salford's fellow minnows Blyth Spartans.

Jarrett Rivers - Remember the name! - scored a last-minute winner which shocked Pools, and the viewing public.

Rivers said afterwards: "I'm living off that goal for the rest of my life", while his manager Tom Wade told BBC Sport the victory was "written in the stars".  

What do the stars say today?

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We'll have to wait and see if Gary Neville has indeed taken on the 1300-mile journey from Valencia to Salford tonight, but we know that at least 350 Hartlepool fans have made the 240-mile round trip.

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But what is the most ridiculous, most arduous, most relationship-straining, plain daft matchday journey you have ever undertaken?

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You can join Dan Walker and team live from Moor Lane at 19:30 GMT on BBC Two, and online in this here page too. Be there.

Salford are having another fine season - third in the Northern Premier League Premier - but they have found life tough on home soil.

Perhaps the opposition are boosted by the chance to see Paul Scholes in the crowd, but Salford have only won two of nine home league games this season. 

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Ronnie Moore has had plenty of ups and downs during a lengthy managerial career, but last season's escape from the drop must be right up there.

When Moore took charge at Pools a year ago the club were six points adrift at the bottom of the Football League. They had 12 points from 20 games!

But Hartlepool picked up a further 33 points under Moore and stayed up comfortably in the end...

Players from both sides have been for a walk about on the Moor Lane surface as the first keen fans begin to file in. FA Cup magic is in the air - drink it in!

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Salford City provided one of the stories of the round last time out as they beat Notts County of League Two, and tonight they are hoping for a repeat trick to earn a place in round three.

In their way stand Hartlepool - 20th in League Two, scorers of 19 goals in 19 league games and losers of four of their last five league games.

Is the sequel to the shock on?