The growing sense of discomfort at Manchester United was hardly eased yesterday when they were handed a potentially treacherous trip to Aston Villa in the FA Cup third round, the only all-Premiership fixture in yesterday's draw.

In arguably the tie of the round the prospect of Peter Schmeichel renewing acquaintance with the club where he won three winners' medals - he has already done so in the league - will inevitably mean it being switched to be shown live on television.

Elsewhere Canvey Island's reward for beating Northampton 1-0 yesterday, having dispatched Wigan in the first round, will be a trip to the Division One leaders Burnley.

The Essex club are the only non-league team certain to be in the third round, though their neighbours Dagenham and Redbridge will have the incentive of a home clash with Ipswich when they play Exeter in a second-round replay at the Victoria Sports Ground.

Liverpool will start their defence of the trophy against Birmingham City at Anfield and Leeds will travel to Cardiff City for a tie that, if Sam Hammam gets his way, will be switched to the Millennium stadium.

"One doesn't want to be too pompous or anything but the reality is that we are a substantially bigger club than Leeds," the Cardiff owner said last night. "If we were in the same division as Leeds, with the same quality team and the same stadium, we would get 50 per cent bigger gates than Leeds get at the moment."

Wycombe, last season's FA Cup semi-finalists, have the opportunity to claim another major scalp after being drawn at home to Fulham. West Ham, notoriously vulnerable to the occasional FA Cup upset, will face Division Three opponents in Macclesfield while Charlton, so nearly embarrassed by Dagenham and Redbridge last season, will host the Division Two's Blackpool.

After losing to Wycombe in last season's quarter-finals Leicester face another potential banana skin after being drawn at home to Mansfield Town. Watford are guaranteed a full house for their clash with in-form Arsenal.