3rd Rd FA Cup - City v Burnley 1500hrs 6/1/18

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It’s tonight!

The 32 matches of the 3rd round will be decided on the evening of Monday, December 4. The draw will be held ahead of the last of 20 second round matches between Slough Town and Rochdale.

Both BT Sport 1 and BBC Two will be showing the draw live on TV just after 7pm and before the 7.45pm kick-off between The Rebels and The Dale. Their respective apps and websites will also be live streaming the draw.

Here are the draw nos. and teams:

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 Scum of the Earth
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

Who do you want?
 
rags v Stevenage home.
Chelsea v Man City.

They really need to introduce a "non-league only" route from Round 1 onwards, face having virtually no non-League teams in the 3rd Round turning the whole affair into the League Cup. It works in the Champions League and it's time the FA caught up.
 
Yet again I'd like a non-league team at home, one of the few things I've yet to tick off with City, no point being away as my 12k points wouldn't get me in.
 
Lower league side at home (although we might be better suited to playing away at the moment).

We need to schedule to be as 'easy' as possible.
 
rags v Stevenage home.
Chelsea v Man City.

They really need to introduce a "non-league only" route from Round 1 onwards, face having virtually no non-League teams in the 3rd Round turning the whole affair into the League Cup. It works in the Champions League and it's time the FA caught up.

I'd have the Prem teams enter the draw in round 2 and seed the top teams so they have to play the lower league teams. But I'd make the prem teams play away to counterbalance the advantage they get from being seeded. It might not actually help the lower league teams instantly (if they keep getting knocked out), but if they get a replay, would help them massively in financial terms. Plus, let's be honest, the magic of the FA cup comes when the top teams play the lower teams so it'd improve it as a spectacle.
 
Best awaydays from M/cr would be:
Fleetwood and Uwe Rosler
Exeter
Fulham.
 

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