One Aston Villa fan will see his hopes of watching his team take on Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final come true after his ‘hero’ of a grandad managed to snap up a ticket just days before the game.

Tom McGowan tweeted a picture of a letter he had been sent by his grandad, in which he revealed he had queued up for ‘hours and hours in cold wet pouring rain’ to get a ticket for the FA Cup clash at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.

Although his grandad went on to admit that he had, in fact, only waited for 90 minutes in the sunshine to get the all-important ticket – and even tried to get more – Tom was unsurprisingly full of praise for him after calling him his ‘hero’.



And, after reading the sweet letter which accompanied the ticket from Tom’s grandad, we couldn’t agree more.


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