Two free tickets to the FA Cup final will come hurtling to the ground from space today (No really!)

If this isn't an incentive for Villa fans to keep their chins up, I don't know what is.

The English FA have had a rather ingenious competition for Arsenal and Aston Villa fans who haven't managed to snap up tickets for the Cup final.

The Football Association have blasted a couple of tickets into the sky above Wembley which are set to fall abck to the Earth at some stage before the final. At 6am on Wednesday morning, they lifted off from Wembley attached to a balloon. The balloon then exploded about an hour later at a height of 29km, and right now, the tickets are slowly descending back down to the Earth. Arsenal and Aston Villa fans can track the little rectangles of gold using GPS, and can also follow the movements of the tickets on the FA's Twitter feed.

In addition to attending the match, whoever finds the tickets will get to be pitch-side before kick off and have their photo taken of the trophy. Let's hope whoever finds them supports the team who actually wins the cup. Hat-tip to the Independent

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Two free tickets to the FA Cup final will come hurtling to the ground from space today (No really!)

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If this isn't an incentive for Villa fans to keep their chins up, I don't know what is.

If this isn't an incentive for Villa fans to keep their chins up, I don't know what is.

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