Get ready for the FA Cup

Last updated : 01 December 2012 By Tony Scholes

Our game should finish around 2:30 p.m. and the big FA Cup draw will take place at 2:40 p.m. and will be made by two former footballers who have recently retired from the game for very different reasons.

One is Fabrice Muamba who suffered a cardiac arrest playing for Bolton in the competition last season at Tottenham.

On the other side when the tie was replayed was Ledley King who was forced to retire because of his injuries in the summer. He'll be alongside Muamba making the draw.

As always for the 3rd round, the clubs from the top two leagues will take the numbers 1-44 in alphabetical order with the remaining numbers, 45-64, allocated as per the order of the 2nd round draw.

As will most clubs, we'll be hoping for a home draw in the 3rd round.

Last season we were drawn at Norwich but in the previous season won a home tie against Port Vale, the only time we've been drawn at home in the last four years and one of only two occasions in the last seven years that we've kicked off our FA Cup campaign at Turf Moor.

The draw numbers are

1 Arsenal
2 Aston Villa
3 Barnsley
4 Birmingham
5 Blackburn
6 Blackpool
7 Bolton
8 Brighton
9 Bristol City
10 Burnley
11 Cardiff
12 Charlton
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 Nottm Forest
31 Peterborough
32 QPR
33 Reading
34 Sheffield Wed
35 Southampton
36 Stoke
37 Sunderland
38 Swansea
39 Tottenham
40 Watford
41 West Brom
42 West Ham
43 Wigan
44 Wolves
45 Preston or Gillingham
46 Bury or Southend
47 Sheffield Utd or Port Vale
48 Carlisle or Bournemouth
49 Crewe or Burton
50 Bradford City or Brentford
51 Luton or Dorchester
52 Alfreton or Leyton Orient
53 Oldham or Doncaster
54 Tranmere or Chesterfield
55 Rotherham or Notts County
56 Cheltenham or Hereford
57 Barrow or Macclesfield
58 Accrington or Oxford
59 Lincoln or Mansfield
60 Harrogate Town or Hastings
61 Coventry or Morecambe
62 MK Franchise v AFC Wimbledon
63 Crawley or Chelmsford
64 Fleetwood or Aldershot