FA Cup holders Arsenal will play in one of five all-Premier League ties in the FA Cup third round when they host Sunderland, while Chelsea and Manchester United were also handed home fixtures.

Chelsea welcome Leyton Orient or Scunthorpe United to Stamford Bridge, while Sheffield United 2013 semi-finalists will visit Old Trafford.

Many Manchester United fans might also have an eye on Salford City, who will host Championship high-flyers Derby County if they progress past a replay against Hartlepool United.

The only non-League team definitely in the next round, Eastleigh will host the Championship s bottom club Bolton Wanderers.

The third-round ties will be played between January 8 and 11.

Draw in full:

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As we move through the month of April there are still plenty of things left to be determined in English football s top tier from the title picture to the relegation battle and beyond. Many fans feel as if they know the direction of travel with some choosing to look ahead to the Euros already, but before we get to all of that, there s still a great deal of intrigue behind some of the remaining fixtures and that includes Manchester City vs Leeds United.

Manchester City

Manchester City are the scariest team in world football right now and there isn t a particularly close second. They are on the verge of making history in the next few months as they pursue an unprecedented quadruple across the Premier Leagu…

Prince William blasted cheating footballers on Saturday and vowed to stamp out the deplorable scenes that have blighted our game .

William, the president of England s Football Association governing body, presented honours for sportsmanship ahead of the FA Cup final at Wembley.

Unfashionable as the word may sound, sportsmanship underpins everything good and worthwhile about our national game, said the 27-year-old, who is second in line to the throne.

What is so important about these Respect and Fair Play Awards is that they acknowledge and reward those who play fair and encourage fair play true sportsmen and women.

Everything about why I wanted to become president of the Football Association is encapsulated by what the winners this afternoon represent.…

The pressure will be on Rafael Benitez to record a winning start to his tenure at Real Madrid this weekend when they travel to Sporting Gijon in La Liga.

Three months after watching arch-rivals Barcelona sweep the board with the treble, there has been plenty of change in the Spanish capital, with Benitez replacing Carlo Ancelotti.

Legendary captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas followed Ancelotti out of the door at Santiago Bernabeu, while Sami Khedira also joined Juventus.

Mateo Kovacic has been brought in as a replacement for Khedira in Benitez s squad, while he also has full-back Danilo and keeper Kiko Casilla at his disposal.

Benitez knows his new-look side must deliver a convincing victory over newly promoted Gijon to avoid his reign coming unde…

Southampton are interested in signing Harry Wilson from Liverpool in the summer transfer window, according to . It has been reported that the Saints have registered their interest in the Wales international winger.

Leeds United, who will play in the Premier League next season after winning automatic promotion from the Championship, are also reported to be on the trail of the 23-year-old. The winger spent the 2019-20 campaign on loan at Bournemouth, who got relegated to the second tier of English football.

According to , Wilson made 20 starts and 11 substitute appearances in the Premier League during his loan spell at the Cherries, scoring seven goals in the process. While the 23-year-old has progressed well in recent years during his loan spells, it is hard to see the w…

Market: Exeter double chance

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Looking to spring an upset at the Valley on Tuesday night, Exeter will make the trip to a struggling Charlton in midweek.

Starting with the hosts, while Charlton might have opened the 2022/23 campaign with their sights set on clinching a play-off spot, the Addicks find themselves in the midst of a rather public struggle. While Ben Garner s men might have been last seen over the weekend playing out a dull 0-0 stalemate away at Lincoln, the one-time Premier League outfit are battling it out at the foot of the League One table. Opening Tuesday s showdown at the Valley holding just a two-point buffer from slipping into the relegation zone, Charlton are also enduring a worrying seven-match winless run. With that extended blip …

(GSM) Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has hinted that he will one day return to his former club Barcelona.

The Cote d Ivoire international left the Catalan giants this summer in a big-money move to City.

Having helped Barca win every club honour available to them in 2009, it surprised many to see 27-year-old swap them for a side which had not won a major trophy since 1976.

Toure felt the time was right to move on given the emergence of Sergio Busquets, who not only replaced him in Barca s starting line-up but forced his way into Spain s World Cup-winning team this summer.

But Toure, who joined Barca from Monaco in 2007, claims he will re-sign for the Catalan club later in his career.

I will be back in Barcelona to play, not as a tourist, h…

Premier League giants have joined the race to sign Benfica midfielder Talisca, according to Milliyet.

The Red Devils boss has been keeping close tabs on the Brazilian for quite some time and he has decided to try and bring him to Old Trafford.

Talisca has been loaned to Besiktas, who have the option to make his transfer permanent, so chances are that Man Utd will be negotiating with the Turkish side rather than Benfica.

And it would appear as though the Black Eagles are ready to do business with the Red Devils as they are keen on signing Juan Mata.

Talisca, 23, is a goalscoring midfielder who has shown a great deal of promise since arriving to Europe from Bahia in July 2014, scoring no fewer than 32 goals since.

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With the international break now upon us, we here at Soccer News have found a handful of helpful tips from both the UEFA Nations League and the upcoming international friendlies that can boost your midweek accumulator.

Thursday 15th November

19:45 Croatia vs Spain

Coming off of their shock 3-2 defeat at home to England last month, there is no doubt that Luis Enrique will be calling for an immediate response from his former World Champion s. Despite that loss in Betis in the UEFA Nations League, Spain have shown plenty of improvements since an unsuccessful run out in Russia over the summer. Since crashing out at the final 32 stage at the World Cup finals, La Roja were enjoying a very eye-catching three-match winning run, including a 6-0 hammering of Croatia in the re…

Tom Lockyer met medics who helped save his life as he returned to the scene of his on-pitch cardiac arrest for Luton’s re-arranged meeting with Bournemouth.

Lockyer, 29, was hospitalised for five days after his heart stopped for two minutes and 40 seconds in the Hatters’ abandoned Premier League game at the Vitality Stadium on December 16.

The Wales defender, subsequently fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, has since conceded it is “out of his hands” if he will ever play again.

Locks and some of his heroes

— Luton Town FC (@LutonTown)

But, 88 days on from the incident which rocked the game, Lockyer met with the medical team who saved his life and was due to be presented to the crowd at half-time of Wednesday’s game…