What’s Hot and What’s Not from the FA Cup fourth round draw

NOT – Safe passage for top sides

Tottenham, Chelsea, and Manchester United will all be at home against lower-league opposition in the fourth round, and Liverpool will be as well should they get the better of Plymouth Argyle in their third round replay.

Many will look at those ties as a chief reason for the diminishing aura of the FA Cup, with it likely that at least one of those games will be on TV.

Things are slightly tougher for Arsenal and Manchester City, who will both be away but will have to wait to see who they face in round four, yet you’d expect all six sides to make it through to round five.

Hardly magical.