The FA proclaimed on Friday that the new arrangement would begin with this current season’s draw for the first round and would be telecast live on BBC TV and radio from the National Football Center at St George’s Park before a live group of onlookers on Oct.27.
The old Monday draws, show on the radio at lunchtime, were an immensely prevalent gimmick of the FA Cup for quite a long time.
They started to be held at diverse times amid the weekend of FA Cup matches 15 years prior.
The draws will now be telecast from diverse areas the nation over, beginning with the first-round draw, which comprises of 40 ties offering the 48 clubs from Leagues One and Two (third and fourth levels) alongside the 32 non-League sides, who have survived the qualifying rounds.
Matt Phillips, the FA Cup media officer said on the administering body’s site: “The draw at St George’s Park is going to be an extremely uncommon event and very surprising to anything we’ve done before with a studio crowd that will speak to all levels of our national diversion.”
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