FA Cup fourth-round draw: Man City host Fulham, Chelsea travel to Hull

Watford or Tranmere Rovers v Wolverhampton Wanderers or Manchester United
Hull City v Chelsea
Southampton v Middlesbrough or Tottenham Hotspur
QPR v Sheffield Wednesday
Bournemouth v Arsenal or Leeds
Northampton Town v Derby County
Brentford v Leicester City
Millwall v Sheffield United
Reading or Blackpool v Cardiff City or Carlisle United
West Ham United v West Bromwich Albion
Burnley v Norwich City
Bristol Rovers or Coventry City v Birmingham City
Manchester City v Fulham
Rochdale or Newcastle United v Oxford United
Portsmouth v Barnsley
Bristol City or Shrewsbury Town v Liverpool

Ties to be played over the weekend of January 24-27.

Here we go, then. Alex Scott will be plucking out the home sides, David O’Leary the away teams. And the first team out is … Watford/Tranmere. They’ll play Wolves or Manchester United!

Two former Arsenal players, Alex Scott and David O’Leary, will be making the draw. They’ll be shaping the late-January fixture lists any minute now. Excited? Of course you are, it’s still the FA Cup when all’s said and done, don’t be that cynic.

How we used to live. The public face of the draw, back in the day. A couple of cold pre-admin sharpeners may or may not have been taken.

Evening. The draw for the fourth round of the 2019-2020 FA Cup is due to begin at 7.35pm GMT. Stay tuned, we’ll be here the moment they shake the velvet bag and the balls inside start to rattle. (OK, they use a fancy perspex bowl these days, and we’re stuck in the 1950s. So sue us!)

Ties will take place between Friday 24 and Monday 27 January. Here’s your club-by-club-or-replay ball guide …

1 Leicester City
2 QPR
3 Fulham
4 Chelsea
5 Wolves or Manchester United
6 West Brom
7 Rochdale or Newcastle
8 Cardiff or Carlisle
9 Oxford
10 Sheffield United
11 Southampton
12 Liverpool
13 Bristol City or Shrewsbury
14 Bournemouth
15 Sheffield Wednesday
16 Bristol Rovers or Coventry
17 Barnsley
18 Manchester City
19 Middlesbrough or Tottenham
20 Reading or Blackpool
21 Watford or Tranmere
22 Norwich
23 Millwall
24 Derby
25 Hull City
26 Brentford
27 Portsmouth
28 Arsenal or Leeds United
29 West Ham
30 Northampton
31 Burnley
32 Birmingham

The balls are in … and it’s on!