Summary

  • Rochdale beat Slough to book third-round tie with Doncaster

  • Third-round draw: Liverpool v Everton, Nottingham Forest v Arsenal

  • Manchester City v Burnley, Norwich v Chelsea

  • Middlesbrough v Sunderland, Tottenham v AFC Wimbledon

Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  1. Let's all get excited like Shrewsbury Town!

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  2. Needs must...

    Cat Archer
    BBC Radio 5 live

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    The studio has gone dark so the Hereford chairman gets his makeup done by phone light.

  3. Tune in!

    The FA Cup draw programme is LIVE now on BBC Two.

    The draw itself is about 10 minutes away. Just enough time to pop the kettle on.

  4. Manchester derby?

    That's what happened in the rehearsal...

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  5. Get involved #bbcfacup

    Which team do you want to play?

    Ben Larwood: Excited for the FA Cup draw.

    Mr Mystery: Leeds United please. Away.

    Mr Mystery, you are indeed a mystery because I don't know you support! Huddersfield?

  6. Carl's got his Christmas jumper

    Cat Archer
    BBC Radio 5 live

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    Carl just bought his Hereford Christmas jumper, especially for tonight.

  7. Harry's following

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    Get yourself to a TV sharpish, Harry. The draw programme gets under way in FOUR minutes.

  8. Cat Archer
    BBC Radio 5 live

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    The early crowd watching the practice draw. Who do Hereford (or Fleetwood) get? Woking or Peterborough...

  9. The ball numbers

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    Our draw programme comes from Hereford who, along with Fleetwood, are ball number 63.

    Here's all the ball numbers for tonight's draw:

    1 Bournemouth

    2 Arsenal

    3 Aston Villa

    4 Barnsley

    5 Birmingham

    6 Bolton

    7 Brentford

    8 Brighton

    9 Bristol City

    10 Burnley

    11 Burton Albion

    12 Cardiff

    13 Chelsea

    14 Crystal Palace

    15 Derby

    16 Everton

    17 Fulham

    18 Huddersfield

    19 Hull

    20 Ipswich

    21 Leeds

    22 Leicester

    23 Liverpool

    24 Manchester City

    25 Manchester United

    26 Middlesbrough

    27 Millwall

    28 Newcastle

    29 Norwich

    30 Nottingham Forest

    31 Preston

    32 QPR

    33 Reading

    34 Sheffield United

    35 Sheffield Wednesday

    36 Southampton

    37 Stoke

    38 Sunderland

    39 Swansea

    40 Tottenham

    41 Watford

    42 West Brom

    43 West Ham

    44 Wolves

    45 Woking/Peterborough

    46 MK Dons

    47 Newport County

    48 Wycombe

    49 Port Vale/Yeovil

    50 Shrewsbury

    51 Doncaster

    52 Slough/Rochdale

    53 AFC Wimbledon

    54 Stevenage

    55 Mansfield

    56 Luton Town

    57 Bradford

    58 Blackburn/Crewe

    59 Fylde/Wigan

    60 Gillingham/Carlisle

    61 Notts County

    62 Forest Green/Exeter

    63 Fleetwood/Hereford

    64 Coventry City

  10. Follow the draw live on the BBC

    BBC Two

    It's business time from 19:00 GMT when Mark Chapman presents coverage of the draw on BBC Two. The programme is also available to watch online via this page.

  11. AFC Fylde versus Arsenal? It could happen - and that's the beauty of the FA Cup third-round draw.

    The Gunners, winners of the FA Cup last season, enter at this stage along with the rest of the Premier League clubs and sides from the Championship.

    In total, 64 teams will contest 32 ties in early January and what those ties look like will be determined in around 30 minutes.

    Nervous? Excited? A mixture of both? Well the good news is there's not long to wait.

  12. Tis the season to be jolly

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    Hello everyone and welcome to Christmas Day!

    Well, Christmas Day for many football fans because today is FA Cup third-round draw day.

    Rather than a portly chap dressed in red depositing presents through chimneys across the world we get famous names from football picking balls out of a bag.

    But the reason why it's exciting? Because teams from the top two tiers of English football enter the fray, and that means the prospect of a lower league club drawing one of the Premier League big guns...