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Accrington Stanley fans are being asked to spend £20 on souvenir tickets for a game which will never happen.

The League Two side blew their chance of hosting Manchester United in the third round of the FA Cup by losing to Yeovil in their second-round replay.
Undeterred by missing out on a lucrative tie against United, Stanley have still produced 250 tickets.
Chairman Peter Marsden said the money would go towards "strengthening the squad" for the rest of the season.
The limited-edition tickets are being marketed as marking the club's FA Cup run.
Manager John Coleman said: "This isn't about dwelling on what might have been. It would have been magnificent to play Manchester United but it was akin to being on holiday.
"Holidays quickly come and go and we have a league campaign to focus on.
"I believe we have a realistic chance of making the play-offs if we can just get people to help us a little bit."

The move has been met with scepticism on online fan forums.
Typical of the response was this comment on accringtonweb.com: "A question. How do you commemorate something that didn't happen?"
Another added: "Bullseye springs to mind... Let's see what you could have won.
"In reality, it's hardly an FA Cup run. We entered round one and exited round two."
Yeovil beat Accrington 2-0 in a replay last month to win the chance to play Manchester United.
The Red Devils beat the Somerset side 2-0 on Sunday.
Coleman said he hoped Stanley would ultimately get to play the 20-time league winners.
"We are speaking to Manchester United and we're going to try to pull on their heartstrings a bit and hopefully those who buy the tickets might actually see us play them in the not too distant future."

Hutch's Shoulder wrote:Sounds ideal: since the game wont be played, you don't have to worry about travel, or the weather, or crap pies and expensive beer, or clashing with something else. In fact, I think he should offer a season ticket to a league of games that wont be played - the perfect present for the armchair fans. He could even print programmes saying whose not in the squad.

Scatman wrote:

Hutch's Shoulder wrote:Sounds ideal: since the game wont be played, you don't have to worry about travel, or the weather, or crap pies and expensive beer, or clashing with something else. In fact, I think he should offer a season ticket to a league of games that wont be played - the perfect present for the armchair fans. He could even print programmes saying whose not in the squad.

I think you're missing a trick with this one.

As well as selling the tickets, you could also make it a condition of owning a season ticket that you are physically present at the game that won't be played. That way they also get to sell lots of pies and expensive beer.

As the game isn't being played, the club could sell individual TV rights without worrying about revenue sharing. They'd lap it up in the Far East. Probably the USA as well. So they could have two or three games that won't be played every day to cover all the time zones.

Also, extra advertising revenue. In the bit where they usually have the match, it could just be adverts and Ray Winstone could tell you the odds on what the next advert is going to be for.

The club could bring out a new kit specially for the games that won't be played. With no rules on what logos you are allowed on kits for matches that won't be played, the sky's the limit in terms of advertising.