Brighton and Hove Albion v Newcastle United: live 22 min Liveblog overlord Graeme Walker has checked in for the evening: If they, the Albion, beat the Premier League Newcastle, it will be the most self-satisfied place in Britain. 19 min Oh it is quiet in the Credit Card Stadium of Brighton. This is not what the FA Cup was like. I was hoping for something a bit more like that Stevenage third round game last year. Newcastle holding onto the ball, Brighton looking clueless as to how to get it back. 15 min Will Buckley does well for Brighton, coming in from his position hugging the touchline, sizing up David Santon and thinking "yeah, go on then," and running right at him. He makes it into the area, stands the ball up. Craig Mackail-Smith (henceforward CMS) has a vague waft at it but can't direct it goalwards. 11 min Goooooalllooooh! So close, Best! That's superb from Newcastle. Wonderful ball from deep on the left from I think Ben Arfa. Best steals in past the last defender, takes a touch and aims for the far post. He rolls it just wide. 9 min Bridgcutt slides in to win a loose ball but inadvertently takes Cabaye out on the follow-through. Cabaye has stayed down and is receiving treatment. 7 min Brighton free kick I'm gonna say exactly 31 yards out. Dead centre. Ashley Barnes is going to take it. It beats the wall, but not the cluster of Newcastle players deployed behind it. 6 min Brighton making Newcastle do the running so far. The visitors are sitting deep. Chris Waddle suggests they're already playing for a replay. Now come on Chris, I think that's a bit rich. 3 min Cabaye puts in a serviceable cross from deep on the left flank. Ameobi vaguely attempts to get on the end of it. He fails, he fails, alas, alas. 1 min Brighton get us started with a kick off imbued with a distillation of pure FA Cup magic. 17.16 The coin toss, that is. Not the match. I don't think he's much arsed either way about that. 17.15 The teams are out. Shola Ameobi is contesting a coin toss. He looks right up for it. 17.09 Every tim I see Jon Champion, ESPN's main man, on the gantry delivering his pre-match treatsie it really makes me giggle. He does not look how his voice makes him sound, somehow. That's enough for a solif 8/10 LOL for me. No? Just me? 17.02 Would you like the teams? Here you are: Brighton: Brezovan, Greer, Dunk, El-Abd, Barnes, Sparrow, Mackail-Smith, Calderon, Bridcutt, Buckley, Forster-Caskey. Subs: Ankergren, Hoskins, Navarro, Harley, Vincelot, Agdestein, Hall. Newcastle: Krul, Santon, Cabaye, Simpson, Williamson, Guthrie, Ben Arfa, Perch, Gutierrez, Best, Shola Ameobi. Subs: Elliot, Lovenkrands, Gosling, Ryan Taylor, Obertan, Ferguson, Kadar. Referee: Lee Probert (Wiltshire) 17.00 Jonathan Liew has a prompt answer on the subject of poor managers and their sad, dark offices: Darren Ferguson's office at London Road, Peterborough has a window. It looks out onto the car park. 16.53 Gus Poyet has shown ESPN's man with a mic around the Amex. His office is windowless. Have you ever seen a manager's office with windows? I have not. Depressing vibe. 16.45 Afternoon liveblog lifers. Brighton is a place I have always struggled with. Entirely too many people that are absolutely delighted with themselves, their lives and very keen to tell you about it. That's not entirely fair. I went there for a weekend in 2009 and had a lovely time. I stayed in a hostel with three other men in a tiny room with two bunkbeds and a toilet disconcertingly close to where my pillow was. If that's not setting myself up for a torrent of rubbish jokes about my sexuality I don't know what is. ANYWAY: football. Brighton are going steady wih the Championship after leaving long-term partner League One last season. They have a big, swish new ground and will be Right Up For This. Still, they played Liverpool earlier in the year on this ground and didn't pull up many trees. And Newcastle United are about as good as Newcastle. But they've not got those useful Senegalese strikers, and are coming off the back of a 5-2 humbling by Fulham last time out. Activate the giant killing machine! Team news and more to follow, stay tuned.