With the npower Football League season starting today, The Sun has teamed up with The Football League to give fans the chance to get closer to the action with its 'Footy with a Friend' promotion.

The Sun already has more coverage of League football than any other newspaper, including regular opinion and analysis from all-round football expert Chris Kamara, match reports, pictures, quotes and ratings on every single match.

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The paper's latest offer launches on Saturday August 7 - the opening weekend of the npower Football League season - and will bring readers even closer to the action.It gives every reader the chance to get bargain footie tickets to matches in England and Wales from just £9.50 a pair.

Readers just have to collect four differently numbered tokens printed in The Sun from Saturday 7 to Friday 13 July.The offer gives fans access to over 100 matches from August 14 until November 6 at 58 Championship, League 1 and 2 clubs and with 100,000 tickets available for £9.50, £19.50 or £29.50 for two adults, readers can benefit from average savings of 58 per cent on full price tickets.

Sun columnist and league football expert Chris Kamara said: "You can't beat the excitement and atmosphere of npower Football League matches at any point during the season, but especially in the opening weeks - and this unbelievable deal from The Sun will let you and a friend, or whoever you want to take, get even closer to the action. Don't miss it!"

Readers need to collect four out of the six tokens printed in the paper from Saturday August 7th to Friday August 13th. Tickets for two adults are available at £9.50, £19.50 or £29.50 and can be redeemed at the respective club ticket office.

Under the promotion The Gills will be offering two tickets for just £19.50 for their upcoming npower League Two matches with Burton Albion (on sale Tue 31 Aug) and Torquay United (on sale Mon 27 Sep) 

Full details of the promotion will be available in today's edition of The Sun (August 7) and at www.thesun.co.uk/footballtickets.