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Preamble
That was the best FA Cup third round in a fair while, wasn’t it? Crawley shocking Leeds. Non-league Chorley making it through. Blackpool seeing off Big Sam. Neil Kengni inches away from giving eighth-tier Marine a spectacular lead against Spurs. MK Dons midfielder Ben Gladwin nearly recreating the famous Ronnie Radford goal against Burnley. Louie Barry’s ice-cool, age-belying finish for Aston Villa U-12s against Liverpool. Late drama between Newport and Brighton. It was a great weekend.
Now to see who plays who in the fourth round … and in a break with tradition (though the cup’s been sponsored by the likes of Littlewoods and Budweiser in the past, so let’s not get too precious) the fifth round as well. It’ll aid scheduling during these strange, postponement-littered times, you see. The clubs in the metaphorical velvet bag for the fourth round are listed below, along with their draw numbers. Once the fourth-round draw is complete, a new set of 16 numbers will be generated for the fifth-round draw, and before you know it, everyone will be aware of their path to the quarter-finals.
The fourth-round draw will take place at 7.10pm GMT, with the fifth-round draw to follow, all going to plan, at 7.23pm. It’s on!
1 Plymouth Argyle
2 Southampton or Shrewsbury Town
3 Chorley
4 Tottenham Hotspur
5 Wolverhampton Wanderers
6 Stockport County or West Ham United
7 AFC Bournemouth
8 Manchester United
9 Swansea City
10 Everton
11 Nottingham Forest
12 Arsenal
13 Barnsley
14 Sheffield United
15 Millwall
16 Doncaster Rovers
17 Leicester City
18 Wycombe Wanderers
19 Crawley Town
20 Burnley
21 Bristol City
22 Fulham
23 Liverpool
24 Brentford
25 Manchester City
26 Luton Town
27 Chelsea
28 Sheffield Wednesday
29 Norwich City
30 Blackpool
31 Brighton & Hove Albion
32 Cheltenham Town
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