FA Cup fifth-round draw: Lincoln and Sutton to discover last-16 ties

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Lincoln shocked Brighton on Saturday before they were joined by fellow non-league side Sutton who beat Leeds on Sunday

Non-league Lincoln and Sutton will discover their last-16 opponents in the FA Cup fifth-round draw on Monday.

England manager Gareth Southgate will help conduct the draw live on The One Show on BBC One at 19:20 GMT, with coverage also on BBC Radio 5 live.

The eight fifth-round ties are due to be played between Friday, 17 February and Monday, 20 February.

There are 17 teams in the draw, with only Derby and Leicester set to replay their fourth-round tie.

It is the first time two non-league clubs have reached the FA Cup fifth round since the foundation of the Football League in 1888.

National League leaders Lincoln beat Brighton 3-1 on Saturday, while Sutton stunned another Championship side with a 1-0 victory over Leeds on Sunday.

"It is unbelievable - we are buzzing for the draw," said Sutton left-back Dan Spence.

Sutton captain Jamie Collins said: "I think we'd like one of the Premier League big boys now - Manchester United, Arsenal, someone like that, away."

Ball numbers

  1. Tottenham Hotspur
  2. Derby County or Leicester City
  3. Oxford United
  4. Sutton United
  5. Wolverhampton Wanderers
  6. Arsenal
  7. Lincoln City
  8. Chelsea
  9. Manchester United
  10. Millwall
  11. Huddersfield Town
  12. Burnley
  13. Blackburn Rovers
  14. Fulham
  15. Middlesbrough
  16. Manchester City

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  • Comment posted by Beavo, at 11:14 30 Jan 2017

    Vote up if you believe the BBC should cover the Sutton and Lincoln matches live.

    Vote down if you believe they should, as always, show Man Utd live.

  • Comment posted by Vox Populi, at 10:21 30 Jan 2017

    Sorry but I really enjoyed seeing Wolves, Sutton, Lincoln and Oxford create upsets. I don't really care what XIs the likes of Watford, Newcastle or Liverpool picked. If their fringe players can't do the business then they've obviously got some bang average players in their squads who shouldn't be at their clubs. They've been found out in a proper competitive game.The Cup is alive and well!

  • Comment posted by stanlington85, at 11:58 30 Jan 2017

    On paper, even 'reserves' of clubs in the PL and Championship should beat lower league teams. If 1st team players were to be injured, these are the ones that would step in or, if in the academy, be aiming to break in to 1st team. It's not just 11 blokes found in the pub.

    It still makes it a FA Cup shock and it's great. Seeing kids holding foil FA Cups at Sutton show the magic is far from gone.

  • Comment posted by U16640536, at 09:50 30 Jan 2017

    These small Clubs represent English football far more than the likes of ...

    Man Utd...., City & Chelsea........foreign owned , foreign managed.....nearly all foreign players...

    Good luck Sutton and Lincoln City

  • Comment posted by Name, at 10:57 30 Jan 2017

    What number ball are Liverpool?

  • Comment posted by U2389678, at 10:49 30 Jan 2017

    Was at Gander Green Lane yesterday, what a match! Leeds never looked like getting into the game....can't wait for the next round!!

  • Comment posted by AndyB_MOT, at 10:22 30 Jan 2017

    11. "The only thing that matters in football is the Premiership."

    So which Premier League team from the other end of the country did you invent a non-existent link with then?

  • Comment posted by modharry, at 11:11 30 Jan 2017

    For those of us of certain age the behaviour of the modern managers is becoming a problem. How on earth did the great English sides of the 70's & early 80's manage to fight on all fronts Liverpool, Forest, Leeds, Ipswich, Villa, Derby etc. They had multiple replays in both domestic cups + the traditional 42 game top flight season.
    Generation Snowflake might be ok but Generation X not amused.

  • Comment posted by DrScoob, at 10:05 30 Jan 2017

    Lets just hope that the powers that be at Millwall can put a stop their wretched fans racist chanting. Nobody should have to experience that at a football match, or anywhere for that matter.

  • Comment posted by U15690032, at 15:59 30 Jan 2017

    There are plenty of teams in this draw who want to win the cup really badly.

    If Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds etc aren't bothered, let them concentrate on the league. They won't win it anyway.

    Meanwhile, bring on the draw!!!!

  • Comment posted by BaggiosPonytail, at 12:18 30 Jan 2017

    Congratulations to Lincoln and Sutton, I hope they get a good draw in the next round.

    On the subject of teams fielding significantly weakened teams it is disrespectful to the likes of Milwall, Lincoln and Sutton. Watford, Brighton, Leeds and the others got excatly what they deserved. In the end they are letting down the fans that travel (sometimes a long way) to watch them.

  • Comment posted by hilpertonian, at 12:12 30 Jan 2017

    All these fantastic clubs getting so far, and what do the BBC give us live...Man Utd.

  • Comment posted by colnun, at 12:06 30 Jan 2017

    We have never lost the magic of the FA cup. It is great to see the lower league teams making progress, even if it against depleted top teams who use the competition to give their up and coming players a chance to get on the field of play. And the best thing? It is still show live on free to view TV channels, making it the people's cup!!!

  • Comment posted by DMT, at 13:14 30 Jan 2017

    Dont agree with the FA Cup Winners getting a CL spot. They play 6 games, possibly 4 of them at home, and 2 on neutral, and you give them a CL spot over a team that has played 38 Prem matches ? People confusing 2 issues, the trivialisation of the FA cup, and bore of the CL. Maybe bring back the ECWC is the answer. As for FA Cup dont schedule a full round of Prem Fixtures 2 days after cup weekend.

  • Comment posted by modharry, at 12:55 30 Jan 2017

    39 Well I think Mourinho is currently blaming the English fixture list but he has it wrong his problem is not the English fixture Schedule with the abolition of multiple replays it has become less intense in the past 20 years his problem is the ridiculous number of games in the Uefa Cup. I think he needs informing of this & I hope Utd or Spurs win it.
    + Lincoln have played 38 games already.

  • Comment posted by Furrowed Brow, at 10:30 30 Jan 2017

    Fantastic opportunity for lower league sides to continue their cup run. It's clear that if drawn against non EPL teams the top flight clubs will rest key players/make sweeping changes. It's not 'cheating' as such, but devalues the cup. Winners should get a CL place then maybe big clubs will take it more seriously. Love to see a couple of big, all EPL ties to weed out 1 or 2 the £ grabbers.

  • Comment posted by Mark , at 15:02 30 Jan 2017

    The FA cup might not be important to plastic fans but for those who week in, week out support their local club no matter how bad or small, it matters a lot. The atmosphere at Lincoln on Saturday was stratospheric. That spirit might just might encourage some local youngsters not to become fashion victims to big club commercialism and TV coverage but to follow football for all the right reasons.

  • Comment posted by U15447144, at 13:56 30 Jan 2017

    I agree FA cup winner should get CL place (I would go further and make it group stage).
    There would always then be at least 2 champions in the CL.
    I would expect bigger clubs to take it more seriously.
    Good chance that the winners would be one of the top-half PL teams, so no watering down of the quality in the CL.
    It is quite sad when finishing 4th in something is seen as an acheivement.

  • Comment posted by Martin in Dunfermline, at 12:23 30 Jan 2017

    The FA Cup, is one of the oldest and most respected competitions in the world, and that coming from a Scotsman. If the bigger teams want to play second stringers, then that is their prerogative. However, when they fail and they will, all the better for Sutton, Lincoln et al.and long may it continue. I hope the "small clubs" get home ties, and there's no reason why they both can't go through.

  • Comment posted by kenny_burns_kneecap, at 16:20 30 Jan 2017

    it's an absolute disgrace that liverpool fielded a weakened team since november

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